Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds].

  • John Badcock
Date:
1829
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Credit: Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    principles upon which all the subsequent details are founded, how the process of nature is carried on in health, and the cure is to be effected in every species of derangement, by restoring the due per¬ formance of those functions. Indeed, he should study it hard, if he would become proficient in the Art of Farriery,” and not rely implicitly upon other people’s prescriptions for the cure of any al¬ leged disorder, which have been composed for the most part without any such preparation. From this neglect, also, symptoms of one disorder are confounded with those of another, when the pro¬ posed remedies cannot possibly effect the cure; and the anomalies and changes that occur in the course of every attack are not watched and noted with suf¬ ficient care. If he is embued with the proper thirst after knowledge, be his station in life about the horse what it may, the student had best to comply with the advice strenuously urged at the very outset, to ex¬ amine the internal parts of dead horses, as often as opportunity presents itself, which in the neighbour¬ hood of large towns and hunts is frequent enough. For this is the manner in which I was myself mainly instructed; as well as by noting down what¬ ever then appears worthy of observation, connected with the previous disease of the deceased subject. To pave the way for more erudite studies, I have in this edition devoted a dozen pages of Introduc¬ tion to the Study of Horse Anatomy; quite ele¬ mentary, and very slight, it is most true, but I trust
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