[Orders of veterinarians of the Ottoman Army]

This article deals with orders for veterinary duty in the Ottoman Army. Although there were various kinds of decorations for the doctor, there was only one for the veterinarian. In addition, there were two kinds of farrier orders. The scarcity of veterinary decorations were probably due to the fact that the duty was considered a manual trade rather than a scientific discipline. Instruction of veterinary medicine in school was started in the second half of the nineteenth century. The pictures of the decorations presented in this article were taken from the album compiled by Bogos Efendi, the chief jeweller of Sultan Abdülmecid and kept in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library.