The New-England farrier; or a compendium of farriery, in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated of; with medical and surgical observations thereon... / By Paul Jewett.

Jewett, Paul

Date:: 1822

Credit: The New-England farrier; or a compendium of farriery, in four parts : wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated of; with medical and surgical observations thereon... / By Paul Jewett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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