Volume 1

The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine.

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a fuppofition, that the horfe had fwallowed feathers, or hen’s dung, and he was treated as fkillfully as fuch an ingenious fuppofition would dictate : this among grooms is not yet done away. A (tumbling horfe had his nofe flit. Some difeafes were fuppofed to be occafloned by the bite of fhrew mice] and even to this day, among country people, the fern owl or eve jar, is fuppofed to inflict adifeafeon calves as it flies, by ftriking them, but which it is known is oc- cafioned by a fpecies of ceflrum or gad fly. The hedge hog lay under the obloquy of fucking cows, and I remember to have leen, when I was boy, a rabbit f.id to be poifoned by rats fucking her. A perfon allured me, he was witnefs to ftones being tied up in a horfe’s ear, fome years ago in Wales, to make him go fafier: and in the old books of farriery, one reads numerous directions to ufe notched flicks in a flit of the ear, to few up pow- dered glafs in an opening of the fkin, with other equally cruel and abfurd pradtifes. It is therefore evident that Sir William Hope’s tranflation of Sol- lyfel 1 mull have contributed greatly among the intelligent, to place thefe errors in a proper point of view. About the middle of the laft century, the art experienced confiderable improvement by the labours of Mr. Gibfon, who was originally a furgeon to a regiment of cavalry ; from which fituation it is probable he was firft led to turn his attention to • the difeafes of the horfe j and by which he was at length enabled to prefent the belt treadle on far- riery
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