The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery. : comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice: likewise all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies ... interspersed with occasional remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others. Also directions for feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase. To which are now added, useful instructions for buying and selling; with an appendix, containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, Bart. / by William Taplin.

  • William Taplin
Date:
1788
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Credit: The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery. : comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice: likewise all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies ... interspersed with occasional remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others. Also directions for feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase. To which are now added, useful instructions for buying and selling; with an appendix, containing experimental observations upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, Bart. / by William Taplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken out .(]f the wieatber‘permit) morning a.nd evening, walking him half an hour before his water, and the fame after; which fliould be taken at a pond of-foft v/ater, in 'pre-. ference, to a fpring or rahning ftream, if pof-> fible, Hisdreffings (hould be aaconflant and regular as his exercife, which having been gradually lengthened for the‘ firfl five or fix days'; he may then, after'walking his ufiial time,'have a moderate gallop (ihcreafing it daily in length and'fpeed, according to flate and ftrehgth). before he' is taken to water; walking him a proper time, both before and after ; by no means adopting that mod ridicu-- louSy contemptibley and pernicious practice of galloping your horfe immediately aftery in fer- ' vile fubje(ftion to the illiterate opinion of warming the'water in the horfe’s belly;’’ a cuftom that has, through the ignorance or folly of fervants, proved the abfolute ruin of 7nany hundredsy as will be clearly explained in the courfe of our future remarks, when we come to fpeak of broken winded horfes; This mode of exercife rnufi; be conftantly per- fevered in without relaxation; his gallops night ^nd morning fhoiild be increafed as well'as his walking ,