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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    themfelves To as to hinder its return bacK again 5 and the thoracick Duff being plac’d behind the great Artery, receives a new Impetus by tion, which alfo forwards the Afcent of the Chyle, have Valves The Lymph duffs contraft themfelves at unequal Diflances, and have alfo their little Flood-gates, Gf t]ie which permit their Liquor to take its Courfe to- Chyle, wards the Chyle Veflels, but hinder its coming back the fame Way, by all which means the ani¬ mal Body can never be depriv’d of its Nourifh- nient, but in cafe of Sicknefs or Want. The Chyle being prepar’d in the Stomach and itsKntram* fmall Guts, as has been obferv’d, and being alfo Blood> further refin’d, by the Commixture of the Lymfha, in its Paffage thro’ the Lafteals and thoracick Duff, is convey’d by that Canal to the left fub- clavian Vein, where it opens itfelf at feveral Ori¬ fices, and mixing with the Blood, is carry d di- reffiy to the right Ventricle of the Heart, and is no further to be trac’d under the Name of Chyle, but henceforth becomes a Fart ot the blood.^ Now that all the Blood takes a circular Courfe thro’ the Heart, is an Opinion fo generally re¬ ceived, that I need fay nothing about it, but pro¬ ceed to fhew the Way and Manner by which that is performed. * , The amending and defending Trunks of the TheCircol* Cava unite oppofite to the Heart, and open into Biood tW, its right Auricle, or Ear , and at that I lace where the Heart, they enter there is a fmall Protuberance made by &c. their Coats on the infide, like- an Ifthmus, woich hinders the Blood of either I runic from rufhmg againfl: the other, but direffs botn into the Ear. The right Ear receives in its Diafiole, that is, when it is defended, all the Blood from both Branches of the Cava, which it empties by its Syftole into the right Ventricle of the Heart, which at the fame time is in its Diajlote. Tl he right VenHcle in its Syftole prefently empties itfelf into the lul- monary Artery, or that of the Lungs, tor it can¬ not returnback again into the Ear, becauie of the Valvule Tricujbides, as that which is once received into the Ear cannot return into the Cava, becauie 1 3 9\