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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinsons, Paternoster-row; and G. Kearsley, Fleet-street,
[1790?]
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| Edition: | The tenth edition, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Edition statement from head of titlepage. With a half-title. A variant of the edition with a colon after "farriery" on the title page. Reproduction of original from British Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 519, 1 unnumbered pages, plate) : portrait ; |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |