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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    jpi The Ster- fturn, or Breaft-bone, j 11 x , 4 The Clam. cul<ey or Collar-bones ) The Anatomy of a H o r s e. Chap. jVL bigger than any of the foregoing • their hind Pro- ceflfes, or Spines grow /hotter, but are broader and thicker than thofe of the Back, fomewhat bending upwards, as mod of the other decline downwards 5 but as to their lateral Proce/Tes, they exceed thofe of the Back in length : They are joined one to another by a clammy Gridle, as alio the upper- moil of them to the lad of the Back, and the lowed to the fjrd of the Os Sacrum by the fame kind of Articulation. Thefe have alio feveral Perforations for the Ingrefs and iEgrefs of Nerves and Blood-ve/Tels, as alfo a large Cavity in each for the Spinal-marrow. Dire£ily oppo/ite to the upper Vertebra of the Back, is feated the Sternum, or Bread-bone, which is very different in a Horfe from what it is in a Man, being, in all humane Skeletons, flat on its out/ide, and pretty dreight f whereas in our prefent Subject it is pot only fomewhat arched, but in its middle is prominent and /harp, like the Keel of a Ship, being alfo hollow on its in/ide. This Bone in Foals, as in Children, feems to be made up of divers Cartilages^ which, in time, be- c®me fo united, as to leave no Marks of their ever having been divided. In its upper Part it is pointed and /harp, where- asdts ]ower Part is fomewhat blunt and obtufe, ter¬ minating in a Gridle call’d the Cartilage Enfiformis, or Sword-like Gridle. Its Ufe is to ferve as $ Safe-guard to the Bread, as alfo for the Articula¬ tion of the Collar-bones 5 and the nine uppermod Ribs having on each Side nine little Sinus's) or Ca¬ vities, for that purpofe. The Collar-bones, which are the drd that are united to the Bread-bone, are in Number two, one on each dde ; they are called Clavicular, either becaufe they refemble the antient Keys, which ^vere in Shape like an Italian f, or becaufe they lock up and clofe-'the Ched : Their Heads are fpungy and open, but their Middle fomewhat thin and Hat, and fomewhat more folid $ by one Enel they are joined to the Top of the Bread-bone, and f>¥ the other to the drd Rack-bone of the Back, differing