The gentleman's stable directory; or, Modern system of farriery : Comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident; interspersed with occasional references to the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others; also particular directions for buying, selling, feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase; with experimental remarks upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. To which is now added a supplement, containing practical observations upon thorn wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness. With ample instructions for their treatment and cure; illustrated by a recital of cases, including a variety of useful remarks. With a successful method of treating the canine species, in that destructive disease called the distemper. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, bart. By William Taplin, surgeon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taplin, William, 1740?-1807.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv,519,[1]p.,plate ) port. ;

Edition:

The tenth edition, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected.

Other Title:

Gentleman's stable directory; or, Modern system of farriery.

Gentleman's stable directory; or, Modern system of farriery

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinsons, Paternoster-row; and G. Kearsley, Fleet-street, [1790?]

Notes:

Edition statement from head of titlepage.

With a half-title.

A variant of the edition with a colon after "farriery" on the title page.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N65765.

OCLC:

508308453