A treatise on the inoculation of horses, for the Strangles : in which is clearly laid down, the manner and time of the operation; the preparation necessary previous thereto; and the mode of treatment during the continuance of the disorder; the whole being the result of long and repeated experience / by Richard Ford, of Birmingham.

Ford, Richard, farrier

Date:: [1791]

Credit: A treatise on the inoculation of horses, for the Strangles : in which is clearly laid down, the manner and time of the operation; the preparation necessary previous thereto; and the mode of treatment during the continuance of the disorder; the whole being the result of long and repeated experience / by Richard Ford, of Birmingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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