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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    It was my intention to have been much more diffufe on the head of difeafes, but the firft and Second parts of the work exceeded my expectation fo much in the room they occupied, that I was forced to comprefs this part much; and for this reafon likewife, I have been much more concife on the difeafes of other animals, particularly on thofe of dogs, than I had rropofed ; nevertheless, J hope, I have added Something to the information on thefe Subjects. The veterinary art is but yet in its infancy, and if even the moft enlightened among its practi- tioners was only to offer what he had himfelf wit- neffed, Small would be his offering; but in its pre- sent State, every (tore mult be ranSacked, and every Source drawn Srom. Whoever has the pa- tience to follow me through the following pages, will find I have not been idle, and that there are few works either in our own, or other languages, that have efcaped me, Srom which it was poffible I could derive any aftiftance: nor have I negleCted oral information; I have Sought the communica- tions oS the moft enlightened practitioners, both in human and animal medicine; and I here moft gratefully thank them for the hints I have gained from them. Independent, likewife, of my own experience and practice on the difeafes of animals, which has been at various times extenfive, I have embraced every oppor-