Volume 1

The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine.

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    terinary College is attempting among individuals, is the intention of the prefent work : and it is evi- dent, that in fuch an undertaking a very wide field of information muft be entered into ; a fimple ac- count of the form of the body in health, and of the mode of treating it under difeafe, will not conftitute a whole outline of this extenfive fubjeft; for in an art, the firft principles of which even, are but emerging from obfcurity, the mind muft gradually be prepared to underftand its more complex parts, by a knowledge of its collateral branches. To this end, the nature, the origin, and progrefs of the healing art in general muft be confidered, and the relations the feveral branches of it bear to each other. The prefent theories muft be alfo taught, and the various other fubordinate parts weaved into a gradatory fcale, by which the mind may be led to reafon and to think medically. The comparative formation of the feveral forms living matter affumes, and the individual ftrutfture of thGfe animals, called domeftic, muft be in turn examined. This leads to an explanation of the laws of the ani- mal oeconomy, and the fun&ions of the parts dcfcribed, which will open the mind to a proper conception of thofe morbid changes producing difeafe, and fuggeft the means of countera<5ting,or removing their effedls . It may perhaps be fuppofed, that I wander too far, in the introdu&ion of fuch varied matter, as will be found in the following pages j but it muft be