Farriery improved : or, a compleat treatise upon the art of farriery. Wherein is fully explained The nature, structure, and mechanism of that noble and useful creature, a horse, the diseases and accidents to which he is incident, with the method of cure. Delivered in as clear and intelligible a manner as the subject will admit. The use and aeuse of this science discovered; whereby any gentleman may be able to judge whether he is imposed upon or not by the ignorant grooms, and other pretenders to this art. Together with many necessary and useful observations and remarks concerning the choice and management of horses. Likewise a farther account of drugs and compound medicines used in farriery; with remarks, discovering whether genuine or adulterated, and their several prices, in alphabetical order, at the end of the work. Vol. II. By Henry Bracken, M.D. author of the notes on Burdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bracken, Henry, 1697-1764.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Diseases.

Horses.

Physical Description:

xvi,298 pages, 22 unnumbered pages,4 pages ; 12⁰

Edition:

The seventh edition, with large additions.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; W. Strahan, in Fleet-Street; and B. Collins, in Salisbury, M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a half-title.

Sig. P3 verso and P4 contain advertisements, and the final four pages contain corrections to prices of drugs quoted in the text.

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 British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T96168.

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Restricted for use by site license.