Observations and discoveries made upon horses, with a new method of shoeing / [Translated by James Parsons?] by the Sieur La Fosse ; With copper-plates.

  • Étienne-Guillaume Lafosse
Date:
1755
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Credit: Observations and discoveries made upon horses, with a new method of shoeing / [Translated by James Parsons?] by the Sieur La Fosse ; With copper-plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O F O B S E R V A T I O N S. ï.T'HE anatomical plate of the differed parts of a horfe’s foot, with their fevers! figures, croffed by fix parallel right lines, the fpace of which fhews, upon every part, the im¬ portance of the accidents that happen to them fo that the quality and feat of each may be fuffi- ciently known, to make a true prognoftic upon their different kinds, without having ftudied anatomy. 2. That the caufe of the lamenefs in horfcs, which is commonly looked for in the Ihoulders or haunches, is in the foot, proceeding from the compreflion of the flefhy foie, by the coronary bones pufhing againfl it : this lamenefs often be¬ comes incurable by the coalefcing of thefe bones, for want of applying remedies as foon as per- ceived. 3. The rupture of the great tendon called the Tendo Achillis. 4. The frafture of the coronary bone into three pieces, and fometimes more. 5. The frafture of the nut-bone in two, and A 4 fometimes
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