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 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The tenth edition, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected. |
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| Item Description: | Edition statement appears at head of title. Includes index. With half-title. Date of publication obtained from ESTC. With frontispiece portrait of Taplin. |
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| Physical Description: | [iii]-xxiv, 519 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |