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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    SECT. III. Of the Rife and Prbgrefs of the Nerves. Befides the Nerves, which arife from the Ver- iehfee of the Neck, Back and Loins, there are nine Pair which take their Origin immediately within the Skull* The firft The firft are thofe which go to the Nofe, and are Pair of therefore called the OlfaBory Nerves, and by fome Neiveb* t]ie Mamillary Procejfes, becaufe they are round at their End like a Pap s They rife from the Shanks of the Medulla Ohlongata, betwixt the Corpora Striata and the Chambers of the Opticl^ hferves, from thence running along the bottom of the Brain5 after in¬ creasing and growing broader, they are divided in¬ to a great many Twigs, which receive outer Coats from the Dura Mater, having only before a fingle Integument from the Pi a Mater. Many of thefe Twigs pafs through the Holes of the Sieve-like Bone to the Nofe, where they help to compofe the Organs of Smelling. The fecond The fecond Pair are the Optidf or feeing Nerves 5 thefe rife a little behind the former, out of the Me¬ dulla Oblongata : At their Rife they are fomewhat foft, being covered only with the Pia Mater 5 but as loon as they reach the Dura Mater, they become cloathed by it, as the OlfaBory Nerves above deferi- bed. This outertnoft Coat conftitutes the Sclero¬ tica or horny Tegument of the Eye 5 and from the Pia Mater proceeds the next Coat of the Eye, cal¬ led the Uvea, from its Refemblance to a Grape in Colour; And laflly, the Marrowy Subftance forms the Retina or Net-like, which by fome is called its third Coat. The third Pair are called the Eye-movers: Thefe arife frorh the bottom of the Medulla Oblongata 5 at the Rife they are united, which is the Reafon why fome believe, When one Eye is carried towards any Obje£f, the other isalfo directed towards the fame 5 as the Opticlf Nerves pals through the firft Hole of the Wedge-like Bone, thefe pals through the fecond, until they come to the Mufcles of the Eye* where Pair. The third Pair.