Stereoplea: or, the artificial defence of the horse's foot considered. Also hints for rearing young colts, sound and with good feet / [Bracy Clark].

  • Clark, Bracy, 1771-1860.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Stereoplea: or, the artificial defence of the horse's foot considered. Also hints for rearing young colts, sound and with good feet / [Bracy Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and ctAvj, armatura, or the hoof: appropriated to signify the art of strengthening the horse’s foot, and of rendering it more enduring the roads, whether by natural means or by artificial protection, used in preference to the old term Farriery, which is a mere corruption of Fernery, derived from the Latin Ferram, iron; and in no way is indicating the object of the art, or what it is in tended to illustrate, and as being in its present state fraught with innumerable errors and abuses, and even gross defects in principle, we have thought the sooner so wretched a term and art is forgotten and lost sight of, the better. After due consideration, we believe the whole matter or art relating- to Horses admits of useful division into three large classes, thus laying the foundation of a real system. 1. The whole Anatomy of the animal, and physiology and functions, to be entitled Hippotomia, or Hippotomy. 2. The Diseases of the Horse,] their symptoms and treatment, to be entitled Hippiatria, or the Hippiatric Department. 3. The Foot and its anatomy, as far as respects the shoeing and the shoeing itself, and all belong- ing to it, having the distinctive appellation of Stereoplea, or Stereoplic Department. It is exclusively this last division we propose now to consider in this work.