Badania Włodzimierza Kulczyckiego nad chorobami koni tramwajowych we Lwowie w latach 1891–1905

Volodymyr Kulchytsky (Włodzimierz Kulczycki, 1852–1936) was a veterinarian, zoologist, prominent mammal anatomist, professor, pro-rector and rector of the Academy of Veterinary Medicine in Lviv. From 1882 to 1934 he worked at the Lviv Academy of Veterinary Medicine, first as an assistant, then as a lecturer, and from 1906 as a professor, head of the Department of Descriptive Anatomy, Topography, Histology and Embryology (later, after changes, the Department of Comparative Anatomy). He also worked as a veterinarian at the Lviv Horse Tram Society, as a city veterinarian and as a veterinarian for controlling cattle and meat on the Lviv railroads. Kulchytsky’s scientific output comprises about 60 publications (brief research papers, studies and scientific articles, discussions, reviews, etc.) on topics ranging from zoology, mammal anatomy, and parasites of oriental carpets. A completely unknown part of Kulchytsky’s scientific biography was the hippiatric research conducted on the morbidity of locomotive transport animals. The statistics he compiled included, first and foremost, a list of diseases of tramway horses, taking into account pathological conditions directly related to the type of work performed. The documentation makes it possible to indicate the relationship between the work performed (norms and dimension of work), the city’s topography, the construction of the tramway infrastructure, and the morbidity of streetcar horses.