The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . rative^ by means oj which it ishoped the too frequent ife offtrong purges^may in time be aifcarded; for we doubtnoty when gentleme7i are once convinced ofthe nature and power of alteratives^ andguarded againft the abfurd notions of farriers^ in relation
The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and MLa Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... . rative^ by means oj which it ishoped the too frequent ife offtrong purges^may in time be aifcarded; for we doubtnoty when gentleme7i are once convinced ofthe nature and power of alteratives^ andguarded againft the abfurd notions of farriers^ in relation to hwrnours^ the .preference will be given to the alterativesyand a praElice eftablijhed as innocent and fuccefsfuly as that of purging is danger-ous and uncertain^ MANT improvements have beenmade on <^ revifal of this edition for theprefs, and M, La Foffe having latelypublifbed a treatije on the difeafes of thefeet andJhoeing horfes^ which is efteemedparticularly curious; we have added 1 xxw The PREFACE. an abftraB of it to this edition, in a di--ftindi Appendix. P. S. By long experience of the ufe ofNitre,, it is now recommended to be givenin much larger quantities than was atfirfl advifed) viz. to three or four ouncesfor a dofcy and this quantity well dilutedwith water-gruel may, in fevers, and. many cafes, be given thrice a XXV THE CONTENTS. Chap. I. ^ O M E General Diredtions iaC3 regard to H orfes. Page i II. Some general Diredions in regard to Bleeding, Purging, i^c, 11 III Of Colds. 25 IV. Of Fevers in general. 31 V. Of a Pleurify, and Inflammation of the Lungs, ^r. 51 VI. Of a Cough and Afthma. 59 VII. Of a Broken-Wind. 6^ VIII. Of aConfumption. 76 IX. Of an Apoplexy, or Staggers, Con- vulfive Diforders, Lethargy, Epi- lepfy, and Palfy. 78 X. Of the Strangles, and Vives. ^^ c Chap# xxvi The CONTENTS. Chap. XI. Of the Difeafes of the Eyes. i-oo XII. Of the Glanders. 114 XIII. Of the Cholic, or Gripes, and Pains in the Bowels, fromfudden Accidents. 133 XIV. Of t
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