The gentleman's stable directory, or, Modern system of farriery : comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident; interspersed with occasional references to the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others; also particular directions for buying, selling, feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase; with experimental remarks upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. To which is now added, a supplement, containing practical observations upon thorn wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness. With ample instructions for their treatment and cure; illustrated by a recital of cases, including a variety of useful remarks; with a successful method of treating the canine species, in that destructive disease called the distemper / by William Taplin.
- William Taplin
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The gentleman's stable directory, or, Modern system of farriery : comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident; interspersed with occasional references to the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others; also particular directions for buying, selling, feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase; with experimental remarks upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. To which is now added, a supplement, containing practical observations upon thorn wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness. With ample instructions for their treatment and cure; illustrated by a recital of cases, including a variety of useful remarks; with a successful method of treating the canine species, in that destructive disease called the distemper / by William Taplin. 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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