Markham's master-piece revived : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical; the II. all cures chirurgical: together with the nature, use and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. ... To which is added by way of appendix, The country=man's care for his other cattle, containing the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and all smaller cattel. And now in this impression is added The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training of horses up for racing; with their heats and courses, and manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to the buyers, to avoid cheating hourse-coursers; and all things necessary for gentlemen, and others. Never before made publick. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate Hill, and Thomas Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1681.
Edition:Twelfth time printed, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd.
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