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Markham's master-piece. : Containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach. Touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains, and approv'd experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The first containing cures physical; the 2d, all cures chirurgical. Together with the nature, use, and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the twenty-first time printed, corrected, and augmented with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines, heretofore never publish'd. To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in cows, oxen, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all small cattle. Also The compleat jockey; containing methods for the training up horses for racing, with their heats and courses, manner of keeping, &c. Also instructions to avoid being cheated by horse-coursers. To which is added in this twenty-first impression, directions to preserve all sorts of cattle from all manner of diseases; and to feed cattle fat without corn, hay, or grass. Also the way to improve St. Foin. With divers other things, never before made publick.
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- Author/Creator:
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.
- Standardized Title:
- Markhams maister-peece
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Livestock--Early works to 1800.
- Livestock.
- Horses--Diseases--Early works to 1800.
- Horses.
- Horses--Diseases.
- Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Veterinary medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages,318,iii,2-64 pages : illustrations ; 4⁰
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for G. Conyers , at the Ring in Litle-Britain ; J. Clarke, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane, 1734.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- At end of imprint: Price 4s.
- With an additional title page with a woodcut border, title beginning: "Markham's' master-piece: ...".
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from National Library of Medicine.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N19802.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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