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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.

Author/Creator:
Reeves, John, farrier
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.
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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