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 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 ... with a successful method of treating the canine species, in that destructive disease called the distemper /