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V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson
d. 1891
Best known for work on cattle disease, this late 19th-century American veterinarian helped shape practical animal health writing for farmers and stock owners. His surviving publications point to a career closely tied to veterinary public service.
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Special report on diseases of cattle
by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson, Dr. (William) Dickson, A. (Adolph) Eichhorn, Richard W. (Richard West) Hickman, James Law, (Dr.) (William Herbert) Lowe, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh, John R. (John Robbins) Mohler, A. J. (Alexander James) Murray, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, M. R. (Milton R.) Trumbower, Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward
About the author
V. T. Atkinson, also listed as Vickers T. or Vickers Thomas Atkinson, was an American veterinarian who died in 1891. Sources available online identify him as a state veterinarian, and his name is closely associated with veterinary writing on the diseases of cattle.
He is remembered chiefly through Special Report on Diseases of Cattle, a practical work issued with the United States Bureau of Animal Industry and preserved in major public-domain and library catalogs. The book's long afterlife in reprints and digital editions suggests that his contributions remained useful well beyond his lifetime.
Very little easily verifiable biographical detail survives in the sources reviewed, so a full personal portrait is hard to reconstruct. Even so, the record that remains places him among the veterinary professionals who helped bring organized, accessible animal-health knowledge to a growing agricultural public in the late 1800s.