The gentleman's stable directory; or, Modern system of farriery Comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident; interspersed with occasional references to the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others; also particular directions for buying, selling, feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase; with experimental remarks upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. To which is now added a supplement, containing practical observations upon thorn wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness. With ample instructions for their treatment and cure; illustrated by a recital of cases, including a variety of useful remarks. With a successful method of treating the canine species, in that destructive disease called the distemper. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, bart. By William Taplin, surgeon
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinsons, Paternoster-row; and G. Kearsley, Fleet-street
1790, [1790?]
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Edition: | The tenth edition, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected |
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | A variant of the edition with a colon after "farriery" on the title page. - Edition statement from head of titlepage. - English Short Title Catalog, N65765. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - With a half-title |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xxiv,519,[1]p.,plate) port 8° |