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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    have attached such high consideration in the se- quel, will at once be seen and appreciated. See sections 31—36. Concerning the Heart, its structure and func- tions,—so much has been said in another place, and so minute is the description of each, that I shall add no more here, than refer to the sections, where the reader may find ample instructions for examining this main-spring of animal life. See sections 37 to 40. In the annexed picture, it is delineated as lying near the lungs [LMN, 19— 21], to the upper part whereof its pipes are at- tached, as described hereafter. By pursuing this course of inquiry, the operator will discover what is, or ought to be, the healthful state and appearances of the main functions of the animal system,—he will perceive the auxiliaries and their uses,—he will have informed himself (it is hoped) of the treatment any horse has received previously to its death ; and he may thus store up in his mind, or better still, upon paper, what dread effects may be produced by the drenches, cordials and diuretics that stimulate but to destroy the vitals of the animal. He will see and compare the animals that die in health (accidentally), or after short illness, with those which die after pro- tracted illness; upon the healthy ones that are doomed, a few hours previously, he may try the experiment of some favoured farrier's celebrated mixture, and subsequently send him the stomach to prove its efficacy in killing all disorders.