The veterinary surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan : being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable ... with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier, and groom / by John Hinds.

  • Hinds, John, active 1803-1830.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The veterinary surgeon; or, Farriery taught on a new and easy plan : being a treatise on all the diseases and accidents to which the horse is liable ... with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier, and groom / by John Hinds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FARRIERY TAUGHT ON AN IMPROVED PLAN. BOOK I. THE ORIGIN AND SEATS OF VARIOUS DISEASES IN THE HORSE EXPLAINED, WITH A VIEW TO THEIR CURE OR MITIGATION. Introduction.—The necessity and advantages of veterinary knowledge, and the means of acquiring it, as regards prevention and cure. Although it cannot be denied, that 'tis better, in a humane point of view, to prevent diseases than to cure them; yet, looking at the fact as a veterinarian, without forgetting my feelings as a man, I do not hesitate to say, this is a consum- mation we cannot reasonably hope to arrive at, whilst the horse is compelled to exert himself to the utmost of his power for our daily profit,'' whereby he acquires a constant disposition to create disorders. Nor would I be thought to