Taplin improved; or a compendium of farriery; wherein is fully explained the nature and structure of ... a horse; with the diseases and accidents he is liable to; and the methods of cure, etc / By an experienced farrier.
- William Taplin
- Date:
- 1796
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Taplin improved; or a compendium of farriery; wherein is fully explained the nature and structure of ... a horse; with the diseases and accidents he is liable to; and the methods of cure, etc / By an experienced farrier. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![from the true ftrangles- The baftard ftrangles are what proves the horfe has not thrown ofF his true ftrnngles but that fome foul humours are flill left behind; this diforder may come at four, five, fix, or even feven years of age. A continual lan- go'urat work, and feemingly perpetually weary, without any vifible ailment, is a certain, fign that he is not clear of this diforder, which fometimes will affecl the foot, the leg, the ham, the haunch, the Ihoulder, the breafl, or the eye, and without care in this latter cafe, may corrupt the pupil of the eye, as the fmall pox does in men. Morfoundering^ There is alfo another diforder, much like the flrangles, which is called Movfoun- dering, and appears by a running at the nofe, but the fwclling under the jaws is lefs. Claniers.\ The glanders are difeovered by a running at the nofe, either on the one fide or the other: feel if he has any flat glands faftened to the nether jaw, which give him pain when ypu: pref; them; and remember that a running at 6ne iioftiil is worfe than at both. When the jaws are ftrait, that the neck fwellelh above them, it is a fign of fhort wind ; but if the fwelling be long, and clofe by bis chaps, like a weftone, then be fure he has. the vives, which is a diftemper mod frequent in high mountainous countries, efpecially to horfes that are not ufed to the crudities produced in the flomach by the fpring and. fountain waters that rife in hilly grounds: ftanding waters, or thofe of very' little current, are the leaft danger- ous, and feldom caufc the vives j but very deep wells are bad. A5 Nojirih,].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28764018_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
