| Summary: | Booksellers note: The manuscript was apparently written by an Achille Lompre who identifies himself as the "Maréchal expert du régiment" (page 1 of section 9). There are no further details available on the author. The manual is divided into 9 different sections - each with divisional titles. They are as follows: 1-121 pp. is an alphabetical list of cures, their properties, composition, and utilization; 2 through 4-166 pp. is entitled "Cours de theorie et pratique" deals with all kinds of diseases and medical procedures (some quite complex, e.g., angina in a horse, pneumonia etc.) giving over separate sections to glanders and hooves, and ending with series of 17 formulae for treatments; 5-6 pp. deals with forms of lameness; 6-10 pp. is "Traite du farcin" noting the skin reactions of this communicable ailment; 7 through 9-25 pp. dealing with metastasis, then a section on shoeing and ending with a final few pages devoted to the method of recording a veterinary examination of a horse. In all a highly detailed and practically oriented veterinary treatment manuscript.
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