Farriery improved: or, A complete treatise upon the art of farriery [electronic resource] : Wherein are 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 abuse of the science discovered; whereby any gentleman may be able to judge whether he is imposed upon or not, by ignorant grooms or 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 they are 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 Bordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bracken, Henry, 1697-1764.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Diseases.

Horses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v.2(203,[21]p.) )

Edition:

The sixth edition, with large additions.

Other Title:

Farriery improved

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by William Porter, No. 12, Skinner-Row, M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]

Notes:

With an 'An account of the prices of drugs of compounds used in farriery, ..' and an index at end.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T225501.

OCLC:

613421112