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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    T H Ë EDITOR’S PREFACE TO THE READER. IN C E experimental philofophy has beêît fo happily propagated by the learned of our own nation ; it has been Spread and adopted into all the Seminaries of Europe wherever the native curiofity of mankindgratified and improved by an application to the liberal arts, has prevail¬ ed. It is to this we owe, this day, the benefits arifing to mankind, from the progrefs made in phyftc and furgery -, it is to this we owe the remov¬ al of prejudices in every part of learnings and the replacing of it with certainties and plain truths \ and it is in a word from this the recipro¬ cal benefits accruing from one nation to another, by their improvements and inventions, daily arife. However negligently the difeafes of horfes have been heretofore committed to the care of the moft ignorant among mankind ; the great ufe thefe ani¬ mals are of in the (economy of life has at lafi point¬ ed out to men of fenfe and learning to take them into their confederation : Comparative anatomy has excited them, and the great Similarity of parts, A 2 offices. !
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