A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

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1830
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    CONTENTS PART I. TREATS OF LAMENESS ; ITS VARIOUS CAUSES AND DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS, CHIEFLY AS REGARDS SHOEING; WITH THE REMEDIES, AND APPLICATIONS PROPER TO EVERY SUCH ILL. Introduction Page 1 Chap. I. The Principles of Shoeing 3 - II. Of adapting the Shoe to the Structure of the Foot 14 - III. Particular Directions for shoeing rightly 19 - IV. Of Lameness, produced by shoeing, principally ; and Treatment of the Hoof 28 - V. Of Lameness from various causes 37 - VI. Medical and Surgical Treatment of Lameness; Prescriptions and Stable Management 47 PART II. OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS AND APPLICATIONS. Chap. I. The Nature and Treatment of Wounds 72 - II. Further Surgical Operations 81 PART III. DISEASES OF THE CONSTITUTION. Chap. I. Fever; Distemper; Staggers; Tumours 85 - II. Observations on Malignant Fever and Epidemy ; Symptoms and Cure .103 - III. Diseases arising from imperfect Secretions—the Bile, the Humours, &c 112 - IV. Treats of Disorders arising out of a vitiated State of the Blood, or that are aggravated thereby; of Physicking, the Botts, &c. 121 - V. Treats more particularly of the Remedies before prescribed; suggests Variations, and recapitu- . lates the new Doctrines laid down in the pro- ceeding Chapters. 153 a 2