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Electrocardiogram performed on a horse. Chart, November (?) 1884.

A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.

A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.

The government of cattel. Divided into three books. The first, treating of oxen, kine and calves: and how to use bulls, and other cattel, to the yoke or fell. The second, discoursing of the government of horses; with approved medicines against most diseases. The third, discoursing the order of sheep, goats, hogs, and dogs; with true remedies to help the infirmities that befall any of them ... Also, perfect instructions for taking of moals; and likewise for the monthly husbanding of grounds / Gathered by Leonard Mascal.

Two scenes of a farrier extracting a tooth from a male patient and a blacksmith extracting a tooth from a female patient. Etching after J. Harris the elder.

College of Veterinary Surgeons, New York City. Coloured wood engraving.

A horse-doctor and his assistants administer medicine to a horse restrained in an outdoor stall, observed by a man with two horses. Etching, 1730/1790?.

Infermità che sogliono molestare i cavalli : co' suoi rimedi per curarle, e sanarle.

Two army veterinarians, one up a ladder examining one of four camels which has artificial front legs. Wood engraving by E.T. Reed, 1906.

Head of a horse in profile, with raised sores near his nostrils and his mouth. Watercolour by Henri Loubat.

Medicina magica tamen physica: = magical, but natural physick. Or A methodical tractate of diastatical physick. : Containing the general cures of all infirmities: and of the most radical, fixed, and malignant diseases belonging, not only to the body of man, but to all other animal and domestick creatures whatsoever, and that by way of transplantation. With a description of a most excellent cordial out of gold, much to be estimated. / Published by Samuel Boulton, Salop.

A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

The British veterinary journal

Dictionnaire des termes de médecine, chirurgie, art vétérinaire, pharmacie, histoire naturelle, botanique, physique, chimie, etc.; / Par Bégin [and others].

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A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

The British veterinary journal

Dictionnaire des termes de médecine, chirurgie, art vétérinaire, pharmacie, histoire naturelle, botanique, physique, chimie, etc.; / Par Bégin [and others].

Infermità che sogliono molestare i cavalli : co' suoi rimedi per curarle, e sanarle.