About a Century of teaching Physiology at the Messina Veterinary Medicine Degree Course

Abstract

Since the foundation of the Veterinary Schools, dating back to the early 19^th century, the teachings of Anatomy and Physiology were taught by a single lecturer and, by the end of the 19^th century, only the Faculties of Milan and Naples had established the teaching of Veterinary Physiology as an autonomous discipline and field of research. Furthermore, the Law no. 1147 of July 25, 1922 also established that the teaching of Physiology to veterinary physicians should be taught by the Chair of Human Physiology of Medicine and Surgery (at least in those Universities where the two Medicines coexisted).