La représentation de la douleur animale chez les hippiatres latins

Abstract

Animal pain is linked to two crucial and different issues : in the Antiquity, horse doctors had to recognise pain in a mute animal, using signs (signa) known in daily practise and listed in veterinarian texts, in order to cure that pain ; modern historians of ideas have to understand what perception of animal pain those doctors had, and if that pain was really taken into account for the treatment. The ancients’real motivation for prescribing (or not) antalgic treatments reveals the status of horse compared to the status of man.

Keywords

• veterinarian diagnosis
• horse
• pain
• analgesia
• Filocalus
• Diligentia