Abstract:
In the history of the veterinary profession in South Africa, the figure of Arnold Theiler stands like a colossus. With the celebration in September, 1970, of the Golden Jubilee of the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Pretoria, greater impetus was given to the longfelt need of a biography of the first dean of the Faculty. This work is the result. This book is valuable as it gives sidelights on Theiler's life and character coming from his daughter, Dr Gertrud Theiler, who, until her retirement, was research worker at the institute her father founded in 1908 - the Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute.
