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. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, bart. By William Taplin, surgeon.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinsons, Paternoster-row; and G. Kearsley, Fleet-street, [1790?]
Edition:	The tenth edition, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected.
Subjects:	Horses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book