Aristóteles :Su legado en los planes de estudio de veterinaria

Abstract

Aristotle (384-322 BC), one of the great philosophers of antiquity, was the first known empiricist. Until the nineteenth century, his work, compiled in the Corpus Aristotelicum, exercised a great influence on various fields of knowledge, including Zoology. Descendant of Asclepiades, he practiced dissection of various animal species and applied the senses and the reason to his analytical method in a similar way to those when they recognize a patient. Perhaps for this reason, he was more interested in anatomy, generation and functioning of organisms (his so-called living entities) than in their classification. Long before One Health, the father of comparative anatomy used man as a reference in the study of other animals. Every year, Medicine and Veterinary studies begin with the learning of anatomical axes and planes described by this philosopher for the first time. With greater or lesser fortune, his contributions extend to other fields of Veterinary Medicine such as Embryology, Parasitology, Animal Production, the study of plants, etc., and he even wondered about the transmission of the heritable characters. In this communication, we review his zoological work and his methodology from a scientific point of view. At the same time, we go over the current plan of Veterinary studies and analyze this philosopher contributions included in it. Thanks to the establishment of Veterinary History, students have the opportunity to delve into the roots of our profession, these are shared with the rest of sanitary jobs. This is a very necessary activity, not only to guarantee a comprehensive training of veterinarians, but also to justify and promote collaboration between graduates of other Health Sciences so that society understands and values the healthy nature of this profession.