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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![Noftrils.] If his noRrils be open, dry, wide, and large, fo as upon any ftraining the inward rednefs isdifcovered; if his muzzle befmall, his mouth deep, and his lips equally meeting, they are figns of health and wind: but fhould his nof- irils be ftraight, his wind is then little. Should vou find the muzzle to be grofs, his fpirit will be dull. If his mouth be (hallow, he will never carry the bit well: and if his upper will not reach his under lip, old age and infirmity mark him for can ion. Age.] Refpe6f.ing the age of a horfe that is fit for work, he (hould have forty teeth: twenty* four grinder?, which teach us nothing; and fix- teen others, which have their names, and dif- cover his age. As mares ufually have notufics, their teeth are only thirty-fix. A colt is foaled without teeth; in a few days be puts out four, which are called pincers, or nippers; foon after appear the four leparators, next to the pincers: it is fometimes three or four months before the next, called Corner teeth, pufh forth. Thefc twelve colt’s teeth, in the front of the mouth, continue, without alteration, till the colt is tw* years, or two years and a half old, which makes it difficult, without great care to avoid being im- pofed on during that interval, if the feller finds it is his intereft to make the colt pafs for either younger or older than he really is; the only rule you have then to judge by is his coat, and the hairs of his mane and tail. A coait of one year has a fupple, rough coat, refembling that of a water fpaniel, and the hair of his mane and tail ieel like fiax, and hangs like a rope untwified; whereas](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28764018_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
