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Veterinary surgery

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  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
  • Two scenes of a farrier extracting a tooth from a male patient and a blacksmith extracting a tooth from a female patient. Etching after J. Harris the elder.
  • Instructions for the use of Farriers...1796.
  • Three veterinary surgeons attempting to cure a horse of various ailments, using dubious and violent means. Coloured etching by Giles Grinagain, 1800/1815?.
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint, 1792, after J. Harris the elder.
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    The veterinary surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan : being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable ... with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier, and groom / by John Hinds.

    Hinds, John, active 1803-1830. | Date: 1827
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    A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.

    Harris, John, the elder, -1834. | Reference: 16511i
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    So you want to be a veterinary surgeon / by R.S. Naismith.

    Naismith, R. S. (Robert Stevenson) | Date: [1973], ©1973
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    Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kastration unserer Haustiere im altertum.

    Haensel, Gerhard (Oswald Leonhard Gerhard), 1884. | Date: 1908
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    Nerve operation on an animal (a horse?): four figures, including illustrations of instruments used in the operation. Etching, 1840/1870?.

    | Date: [1840/1860?] | Reference: 571897i
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