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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Its Ufe is to extend the Thigh, and to draw it outward and backward, as when a Horfe ftands to Hale. The third and laft of the Extenders is called Gluteus Minor, or lefifer Buttock Mufcle 5 it rifes round and flefhy as high as the former, and de¬ fending obliquely over the Joint of the Hip, to the lower End of the Thigh-bone, is inferted fomewhat towards its forefide. This aflifts the other in its Action The Thigh is mov’d inwards by the Triceps, or, Moved according to fome, the Quadriceps, from its having ^MufcL four Heads; the firH Head riling nervous from the upper Part of the Share-bone, and defending to the infide of the lower End of the Thigh-bone. The fecond beginning defy at the lower fide of the fame Bone, and ending a little higher than the former. The third arifing partly nervous and partly flefhy, from the under fide of the Coxendix, is inferted near the laft. The fourth, having a like Origin from the Tip of the Coxendix, runs along the infide of the Thigh, and ends in a round Tendon 5 which joining with the Tendon of the firft part of this Mufcle, has the fame Infertion with it. The Thigh is alfo turn’d outwards by four Ancl fmall Mufcles, call’d Quadrigemini, all which are £0uu^artS b] placed one by another, upon the outfide of the Articulation of the Thigh. The firft is the long- eft, and takes its Origin from the lower and outer Part of the Os Sacrum 5 afterwards, paffing over the great Rotator, it is inferted into the outfide of the lower End of the Thigh-bone, The fecond and third arife both of them from the Knob of the Os Ifchium, near each other, and are inferted with the firft. The fourth is more flefhy than the reft, arifing from the inner Part of the Knob of the Ifchium, and terminating with the former : To thefe rnuft / be added the Veltoides of the T high, which fprmgs from the outfide of the Tip of the Ileum, with a fliarp Beginning, but growing triangular, is infer¬ ted with a broad membranous Tendon into the G % outfide