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 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 |
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Philadelphia :
James Webster,
1812.
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| Edition: | A new edition. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. Volume 2 has half title: The modern system of farriery. An edition called the 12th, with the same paging, was published in Philadelphia in 1794 (Evans 27771) The contents are the same as in the 1796 London edition. Signatures: pi² A-2M⁸ Mis-numbered pages in index: pages 526 and 527 numbered as 226 and 227, pages 530 and 531 numbered as 230 and 231, pages 534 and 535 numbered as 234 and 235, pages 538 and 539 numbered as 238 and 239. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes in 1 (xvi, 4 unnumbered pages, 540 pages) ; 21 cm. |