The farriers new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse. Being an exact and compendious description of all his parts; with their actions and uses: illustrated with figures curiously engrav'd on copper-plates. Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure. Wherein many defects in the farriers practice, are now carefully supply'd, their errors expos'd and ammended, and the art greatly improv'd and advanc'd, according to the latest discoveries / the whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c., by W. Gibson / [W. Gibson].

  • William Gibson
Date:
1720
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Credit: The farriers new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse. Being an exact and compendious description of all his parts; with their actions and uses: illustrated with figures curiously engrav'd on copper-plates. Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure. Wherein many defects in the farriers practice, are now carefully supply'd, their errors expos'd and ammended, and the art greatly improv'd and advanc'd, according to the latest discoveries / the whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c., by W. Gibson / [W. Gibson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uppermoft Vertebra of the Cheft, and five lowermoft of the Neck, and are inferted into the whole lower fide of the Spine of the fecond Fertebra of the Neck. Their Office is to bend the Neck backward, cr Jl little obliquely. / The next Fair is called Tranfverfale, becaufe they both arife, and are inferted into the tranfverfe Proceffes of the Fenebr#, arifing from thofe of the uppermoft Fertebrce of the Cheft $ and being in¬ ferted into the outfides of all the tranfverfe Pro- cefi.es of the Neck-bones. Their Ufe is the fame with the firft Pair. The third Pair, called Longumt lie hid under the Gullet, arifing from the Body of the fifth and fixth Vertebra of the Back, and reaching the high- eft Fertebra of the Neck, into which they are in¬ ferted. Their Ufe is contrary to the firft two Pair, bending the Neck forward when they aft together, and when they a£l fingly, to one fide. The laft Pair is called Triangulare: Thefe are feated forward on the fides of the Neck, having fome Perforations, by which Veins, Arteries and Nerves, pafs out of the Body into the Fore-legs. SECT. VII. Of the Mu fries of the Breafl. 'The Bread widen’d and cSeprefvd by fix Pair. The four Pair that widen the Bread. Having briefly run over theMufcles which ferve to move the Head and Neck, we come now to thofe of the Breaft, which afluate the Cheft, whereof four Pair widen and dilate it, and two Pair contra£1 it. The firft of thofe which ferve to widen the Breaft are called Subclavium, from theirSituation un¬ der the Clavicle or Collar-bone. Thefe arife from under that Bone, and are implanted into the firft Rib near the Breaft-bone, drawing the firft Rib upwards and outwards. The fecond Pair, called Serratum ma]us antlcum (from the Refemblance their Tendons have to the Teeth of a Saw) arife from the in fide of the Shoulder-Blade and the two upper Ribs, and are inferted