Training Programs for Veterinarians in Laboratory Animal Medicine

For over 'a hundred years animals have been used for research in America. Until the 1920's little attention was given to the maintenance, husbandry, nutrition and diseases of experimental animals. Biologi-cal research workers have always realized the importance of maintaining high stand-ards of quality in their. research and in recent years these high standards have been extended to their experimental animals. It was recognized that good husbandry and nutrition, as well as freedom from naturally occurring diseases, were essential for production and main-tenance of quality research-animals. Th