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The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or, to recover them if fallen ill : and also to render them much more serviceable and useful to their owners, than has yet been discovered, known or practised : and particularly to preserve sheep from that monsterous, mortifying distemper, the rot /

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Main Author:	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle ..., [1684]
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Animal welfare > Early works to 1800. Communicable diseases in animals > Early works to 1800.
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