Philibert Chabert

{{short description|French agronoist and veterinarian}}

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Philibert Chabert (6 January 1737 – 8 September 1814) was a French agronomist and veterinarian. He was an important educator and director and the École National Vétérinaire d'Alfort, where he greatly increased the school's important anatomy and natural history cabinet.{{cite journal|last1=Heintzman|first1=Kit|title=A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766–1799|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|date=2018|doi=10.1017/S0007087418000274|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6021EB7317F4B67F6EBC150842D267E4/S0007087418000274a.pdf/div-class-title-a-cabinet-of-the-ordinary-domesticating-veterinary-education-1766-1799-div.pdf|pmid=29665887|volume=51|issue=2|pages=239–260|s2cid=4947361 }} In 1774, he wrote a treatise on methods to control an anthrax epizootic occurring in Saint-Domingue.{{cite book|last1=Swiderski|first1=RM|title=Anthrax: A History|url=https://archive.org/details/anthrax00rich|url-access=registration|date=2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786481965|page=[https://archive.org/details/anthrax00rich/page/89 89]}}