Lectures on the elements of farriery: or, the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot. Designed chiefly for the use of the pupils of the Veterinary College, London / By Charles Vial de Sainbel.

  • Charles Vial de Sainbel
Date:
1793
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Credit: Lectures on the elements of farriery: or, the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot. Designed chiefly for the use of the pupils of the Veterinary College, London / By Charles Vial de Sainbel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    under pain of severe penalties, to kill a labouring ox*. Cattle was the great medium of exchange, before the invention of coin f; and the riches of countries and individuals were estimated by the quan¬ tity of their cattle; whence we may reasonably infer a proportionate attention to their condition and pre¬ servation. And the laws of religion, which rigo¬ rously forbad the sacrificing of any animal, but such as were in the most perfect state of health and form]:, confirmed the necessity of giving due atten¬ tion to that object. Chiron the Thessalian, a personage whom anti¬ quity held in extreme veneration, and who, from his transcendant skill in horsemanship, and many other useful arts, was called the wise Centaur, lived to the age of the Trojan war. This great man descends to us as the father of medicine, and the instructor * JElian. Var. Hift. lib. 5. De Animal, lib. 12. Varro de re Ruftica, lib. 2. Plin. lib. 8, cap, 45. ^ Columella, lib. 6. Proem.—Smith’s Wealth of Nations, vol. 1, P- 34- + Archseologia Graeca, Potter, lib. 2, c. 4. of