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Conversations on conditioning : the grooms' oracle, and pocket stable-directory; in which the management of horses generally, as to heath, dieting, and exercise, are considered, in a series of familiar dialogues, between two grooms engaged in training horses to their work. With notes, and an appendix, including extracts from the receipt book of John Hinds [pseud.].
John BadcockDate: 1829
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A manual for the use of coachmen, grooms, ostlers and all persons concerned in the care and management of horses : being a selction of near three hundred receipts for the several disorders to which that noble animal is subject : together with some general observations and an index.
Date: 1799
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Zīnat al-Ḵẖail / Munshī Muḥammad Mahdī.
Mahdī, MuḥammadDate: 1304 [1887]
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The parfait mareschal, or Compleat farrier : Which teacheth, I. To know the shapes and goodness, as well as faults and imperfections of horses. II. The signs and causes of their diseases, the means to prevent them, their cure, and the good or bad use of purging and bleeding. III. The way to order and preserve them, when upon travel, to feed, and to dress them. IV. The art of shoeing, according to a new design of shoes, which will recover bad feet, and preserve the good. Together with a treatise, how to raise and bring up a true and beautiful race of horses: as also instructions, whereby to fit all kinds of horses with proper bits, whereof the chief draughts are represented in copper-plates. / Written originally in French by the Sieur de Solleysel Escuyer, sometime one of the overseers of the French Kings Royal Academy of Riding, near to the Hostel de Conde in Paris. And translated from the last Paris impression, by Sir William Hope of Kirkliston Kt. Lieutenat Governour of the Castle of Edinburgh. By whom is also added as a supplement to the first part, a most compendious and excellent collection of horsemanship, taken from the best and most modern writers upon that subject, such as Mr. De la Brow, Pluvinel, and the Great Duke of Newcastle. Part I.
Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617-1680. Parfait mareschal. EnglishDate: M.DC.XCVI. [i.e. 1696]
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Compendio di varie ricette per medicar cavalli : esperimentate, si nella scuderia dell'illustriss. sig. conte Giuseppe Maria Arconati / Raccolte, & date in luce da me, Pietro Francesco Canevese. Opera di grande giovamento, & utile à chi si diletta di numerosa comitiva de cavalli.
Canevese, Pietro Francesco.Date: 1698
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A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet : also, some new observations on the art and practice of farriery ; and on the nature and difference in the several breeds of speedy horses / by William Osmer.
Osmer, WilliamDate: 1830
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The modern system of farriery, comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice, containing all the most valuable and approved remedies, accurately proportioned, and properly adapted to every disease the horse is incident ; including rules for the management of the healthy horse, as feeding, stabling, grooming, and conditioning / by George Skeavington.
Skeavington, George.Date: 1838
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The Asva-vaidyaka : a treatise on the veterinary art / [compiled] by Jayadatta Suri, with an appendix containing the texts of Nakula's Asva-Chikitsita ; edited with short notes by Umesachandra Gupta.
Date: 1887
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The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery. : comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice: likewise all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies ... interspersed with occasional remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others. Also directions for feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase. To which are now added, useful instructions for buying and selling; with an appendix, containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, Bart. / by William Taplin.
William TaplinDate: 1788
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Remedies for diseases in horses / approoued and allowed by diuers very auncient learned mareschals.
Date: 1588
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The gentleman's stable directory, or, Modern system of farriery. : comprehanding the present entire improved mode of practice; likewise 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 remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer and others. Also directions for feeding, bleeding, purging and getting into condition for the chase. To which are now added, useful instructions for buying and selling; with an appendix, containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, Bart. / by William Taplin.
William TaplinDate: 1788
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The perfect horseman, or, The experienced secrets of Mr. Markham's fifty years practice : shewing how a man may come to be a general horseman, by the knowledge of these seven offices, viz. the breeder, feeder, ambler, rider, keeper, buyer, farrier / and now published by Lancelot Thetford, practitioner in the same art for the space of forty years.
Gervase MarkhamDate: 1656
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Veterinary pathology, or, a treatise on the cause and progress of the diseases of the horse ; together with the most approved methods of prevention and cure ... and an Appendix; or, veterinary dispensatory.. / by William Ryding.
Ryding, William.Date: 1801
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Nimmo's art of horsemanship : bwith general remarks on the management of horses.
Nimmo, JamesDate: [1900?]
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The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or to recover them if fallen ill : and also to render them much more serviceable ... / by Philotheos Physiologus.
Thomas TryonDate: [1688]
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The classical farrier : exhibiting the whole anatomy of that noble animal the horse : perfectly describing, by elegant engravings on copper-plates, the various parts of the head, body, and limbs, both external and internal : together with the signs, causes, and true methods of curing every disease incident to horses. In the appendix are general rules for the proper management of running-horses, &c. Entirely by an improved and experienced mode of practice : to which is added, a copious index of diseases and their remedies / by William Merrick, Farrier, of Swallow-Street, St. James's.
Merrick, WilliamDate: 1788
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A treatise on the inoculation of horses, for the Strangles : in which is clearly laid down, the manner and time of the operation; the preparation necessary previous thereto; and the mode of treatment during the continuance of the disorder; the whole being the result of long and repeated experience / by Richard Ford, of Birmingham.
Ford, Richard, farrierDate: [1791]
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A guide to practical farriery, containing hints on the diseases of horses and neat cattle, with many valuable and original recipes from the practice of an eminent veterinary surgeon. : With an appendix. / By J. Pursglove, Sen.
Pursglove, J.Date: 1823
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Mayhew's Illustrated horse management : containing descriptive remarks upon anatomy; medicine; shoeing; teeth; food; vices; stables; likewise a plain account of the situation, nature, and value of the various points; together with comments on grooms - breeders - breakers and trainers. Embellished with numerous engravings. / Revised and improved by James Irvine Lupton, M.R.C.V.S.
Edward MayhewDate: 1890
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The perfect and experienced farrier : Being necessary for all gentlemen-troopers, farmers, farriers, carriers, carmen, coachmen, and horse-coursers, &c. Shewing a most exact, easie and speedy way of curing all sorances and diseases incident to horses (and other cattle.) Wherein is shewed the true anatomy and inside of a horse, with his intrailes, sinewes, and number of bones, and veynes necessary for blood-letting. Never before published. / Written by Robert Barret of Esborne in Sussex, and published for the good of his country.
Date: 1660
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The horse-mans honour, or, The beautie of horsemanship : as the choise, natures, breeding, breaking, riding, and dieting, whether outlandish or English horses : with the true, easie, cheape, and most approued manner, how to know and cure all diseases in any horse whatsoeuer : not innented [sic] and drawne from forraigne nations, but by long experience and knowledge of many yeares practise : and now published at the request of diuers honourable and worthy persons, for the generall good of the noble nation of Great Britaine.
Morgan, Nicholas, of CrolaneDate: 1620
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The compleat horseman : discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults and imperfections of horses, the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation and cure, with reflexions on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging : also the art of shooing, with the several kinds of shooes, adapted to the various defects of bad feet, and the preservation of good : together with the best method of breeding colts, backing 'em, and making their mouth &c. / by the Sieur de Solleysell ... ; to which is added, a most excellent supplement of riding, collected from the best authors, with an alphabetical catalogue of all the physical simples in English, French, and Latin, by Sir William Hope.
Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617-1680. Parfait mareschal. EnglishDate: MDCXCVI [1696]
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The history of the horse : its origin, physical and moral characteristics, its principal varieties, and domestic allies / by W.C.L. Martin ; with an appendix on the diseases of the horse, by W. Youatt.
William Charles Linnaeus MartinDate: 1845
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Every man his own horse doctor / by George Armatage ... in which is embodied Blaine's Veterinary art. With numerous recipes, steel plates, and upwards of three hundred practical, anatomical, and surgical illustrations.
Armatage, GeorgeDate: 1892
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Māṭṭuvākaṭa pacu vaittiyam acuva cāstiram.
Date: 1929