The art of farriery both in theory and practice : containing the causes, symptoms, and cure of all diseases incident to horses : with anatomical descriptions, illustrated with cuts, for the better explaining the structure, and accounting for the various disorders of these useful animals : as also many rules relating to the choice and management of horses of all kinds, and useful directions how to avoid being imposed upon by jockies : wherein some egregious errors of former writers are occasionally pointed out / by John Reeves ... ; the whole revised, corrected, and enlarged by a physician ; to which is added, a new method of curing a strain in the back sinews, and the anatomy of a horse's leg, with some observations on shoeing ; also an appendix, containing some necessary observations on the late epidemical distemper among horses, and a method of cure by an eminent surgeon.
- Publication:
- London : Printed for Carnan and Newbery ..., Stanley Crowder ..., and B. Collins, in Salisbury, 1771.
- Format/Description:
- Book
8 unnumbered pages, 416 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo) - Edition:
- The third edition.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g737g3h - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.
Horses -- Diseases.
Horses -- Early works to 1800.
Horses.
Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine. - Notes:
- The eminent surgeon is Dale Ingram. Cf. ESTC.
Signatures: A⁴ B-2D⁸.
Woodcuts: initial; head-pieces.
Includes index. - Penn Provenance:
- Duefon, John (autograph, 1772) (PSPA copy)
- Penn Chronology:
- 1771
- Cited in:
- ESTC N29995
Fox, C.G. The Fairman Rogers Coll. on the horse and equitation, 650 - Contributor:
- Ingram, Dale, 1710-1793.
Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) - OCLC:
- 18238171