The gentleman's farriery: or, a practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses, is particularly consider'd and improved. Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine / By J. Bartlet, surgeon. To this edition are added, the Sieur La Fosse's observations and discoveries made upon horses, with a new method of shoeing, and some necessary precautions to prevent the glanders; with Mr. Barlet's account of Mr. La Fosse's observations on horses. Illustrated with copper plates, shewing the anatomy of a horse's foot; clearly pointing out how far we may have reason to expect a removal of complaints there.

Niall Kenny description: Seems rare, not in Dingley, RVC or RCVS. This is in fact 2 books bound together, and this was how it was usually published, although separate copies of La Fosse's "Observations" are recorded in Irish libraries. The translation of La Fosse has a separate title...

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