The Veterinary Surgeon or Farriery Taught on a New and Easy Plan (Hardcover)

1830. Being a Treatise on All the Diseases and Accidents to Which the Horse is Liable. The causes and symptoms of each and the most approved remedies employed for the cure in every case; with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier and groom; how to acquire knowledge in the art of farriery and the prevention of diseases preceded by a popular description of the animal functions in health and showing the principles on which these are to be restored when disordered. The Contents are divided into the following three books: The Origin and Seats of Various Diseases in the Horse explained, with a view to their Cure or Mitigation; The Causes and Symptoms of various Bodily Diseases incident to the Horse; with the most approved Remedies in every Case; and Of the Leg and Foot of the Horse; or, Shoeing-smith's Guide.