The New-England farrier : being a compendium of farriery : in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are subject, are treated of; with medical and surgical operations thereon : being the result of many years' experience : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett, of Rowley.

  • Jewett, Paul
Date:
1807
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Credit: The New-England farrier : being a compendium of farriery : in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are subject, are treated of; with medical and surgical operations thereon : being the result of many years' experience : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett, of Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cloth, to prevent their growing stiff, and swel- ling; he should not he permitted to drink till cool; and in dusty weather his hay should be sprinkled with water, and his grain soaked at al] seasons of the year. But these remarks will more properly occur, when I shall give direc- tions for travelling horses. All I need say further in this place is, Consi- der what your beast is capable of performing, and the keeping you bestow on him; then re- quire no more than reason exacts, and you may expect a lasting and faithful servant. On Stables. THE stabling of horses in the country, requires but few directions, their stables in general being capacious enough for a free- circulation of air, which is as necessary for a horse, as for the hu- man species. But where thirty or forty are kept together in a close stable, where the air has no access but by the door, together with the sharp exhalations from the urine, perspiration of their bodies, &c. it renders the situation disagree- able, and almost intolerable. A horse in health, to remain long in such a place, would soon be enervated, and unfit for business. Stables should be situated where the air may have a draught through them; and in every horse's apartment a small window should be placed, and left open through the night, and not shut up to suffocate its inhabitants, as too frequently is the case in large towns. I shall now speak of the principal general dis- orders, to which horses are subject.