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 ... : to which is added, a supplement, containing practical observations upon the thorn wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness ; with ample instruction 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. Two volumes in one.

William Taplin

Date:: 1812

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 ... : to which is added, a supplement, containing practical observations upon the thorn wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness ; with ample instruction 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. Two volumes in one. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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nefs into the ftomach; and, laftly, wounds, or whatever elfe caufes pain and inflammation : as to the cure it is the fame widi that of apoplexy and vertigo. He has thus tech- nically and abftrufely laboured through a multiplicity of clofe written pages to perplex the mind and confound the judg- ment, mifleading his readers by repeated attempts to prove the diftinct exiftence of all thefe feparate difeafes : though at the conclufion of each defcription, he acknowledges they are nearly fynonymous, and come directly under the fame me- thods of cure. This is abfolutely the fact brought into the compafs of truth, and will exculpate me from the accufation of neglect or deception in not treating feparately upon fuch difeafes; and, by introducing a train of imaginary fymptoms, endeavour to give the appearance of weight to what muft be termed a mere matter of conjecture. As they are diforders that luckily happen but feldom, I fhall confine myfelf to their defcrip- tion and treatment as xhtjiaggers and convulfion.s only; the inftructions neceflary for the management of thofe being uni- verfally admkted adequate to the intentional cure of the long lift of et ceteras. Horfes upon the approach of any of thofe diforders, whofc feat is directlyin the brain, or nervous fyftem,difplay a previous weaknefs and inactivity, feeming to move reluctantly, reeling or ftaggering in their walk, frequently blinking their eyes, as feeling fome awkward deprcfiion or uneafmefs from the effect of light; they are averfe to handling, and brought out of the ftable with difficulty : in time a vifible tremor comes on, and after reeling (or frequently turning round, if loofe^they fall almoft lifelefs to the ground, having the perceptible power of breathing only, but that in a degree of violence and agitation; this is termed the apoplexy or staggers, ad- mitted fynonymous and fimilar in caufe, fymptoms, and effeds, The

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