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Richard Vine Tuson

1832–1888

A 19th-century veterinary writer whose surviving books focus on medicines, remedies, and practical reference works for animal care. His best-known work is a pharmacopoeia written for veterinary practitioners and students, offering a glimpse into how veterinary medicine was taught in Victorian Britain.

2 Audiobooks

Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

by Arnold James Cooley, Richard Vine Tuson

Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II

Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II

by Arnold James Cooley, Richard Vine Tuson

About the author

Born in 1832 and dying in 1888, Richard Vine Tuson is remembered today through a small body of practical medical writing rather than through a widely documented personal biography. The clearest records available here connect him with veterinary medicine and with books intended to be useful in study and practice.

His most frequently cited work is A Pharmacopoeia, Including the Outlines of Materia Medica and Therapeutics: for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Veterinary Medicine, first published in the 19th century and reissued in later editions. Catalog and archive records also link him to editions of Cooley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts, suggesting an interest in hands-on reference material and applied science.

Because reliable biographical sources on his life are scarce in the material found, many personal details remain unclear. What does stand out is his role in producing serious, utilitarian books for readers working in or studying veterinary care during a period when the profession was becoming more formalized.