The modern farrier, or, The art of preserving the health and curing the diseases of horses, dogs, oxen, cows, sheep, & swine : comprehending a great variety of original and approved recipes, instructions in hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, and fishing, and a summary of the game laws; with an enlivening selection of the most interesting sporting anecdotes : the whole forming an invaluable and useful companion to all persons concerned in the breeding and managing of domestic animals / by A. Lawson ... ; illustrated with numerous engravings.

  • Lawson, A., active 1820-1827
Date:
1823
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Credit: The modern farrier, or, The art of preserving the health and curing the diseases of horses, dogs, oxen, cows, sheep, & swine : comprehending a great variety of original and approved recipes, instructions in hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, and fishing, and a summary of the game laws; with an enlivening selection of the most interesting sporting anecdotes : the whole forming an invaluable and useful companion to all persons concerned in the breeding and managing of domestic animals / by A. Lawson ... ; illustrated with numerous engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as arrows: his feet round, and not too large; his shoulders back ; his breast rather wide than narrow ; his chest deep; his back broad ; his head small; his neck thin; his tail thick and bushy, and if he carry it well, so much the better. From the number of years so emulously employed by sporting amateurs in the improvement of this breed, we may naturally conclude that it has now at- tained the summit of perfection, and that no country in Europe can boast of fox-hounds equal in strength, agility, and speed, to those of Great Britain. 4}2. The Greyhound. ] T^he greyhound is of a beautiful and delicate Formation for speed and majestic attraction, and, under the ancient name of gazehound, formed one of the earliest dogs of the chase. He was the origi- nal companion of royalty in the spotts of the field; and in lieu of fines and forfeitures to the c*rown, king John was wont to accept of gazehounds. It is observed by the Rev. W. B. Daniel, that the grey- hound in ancient times %vas considered as a very valuable present, and particularly to the ladies, to whom a compliment, so intrinsically estimated, was singularly acceptable. The deer, fox, and hare, have each been coursed by grey-hounds, according to the fashion of the peo- ple, and the custom of the times; the two former are now seldom or never resorted to; but in pursuit of the hare, the energetic velocity of the greyhound still affords delight. In shape, make, and form, it is a beautiful and delicate animal, and is universally allowed to be the fleetest of the canine species. It is not recorded why or when the name of grey- hound was adopted, though it is evidently certain, that gazehound was the original name, in allusion to its running by sight, and not by scent. No obstacles whatever can restrain the invincible ardour and determined progress of the greyhound ;