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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    Explanation and practical use of the Skeleton an~ neoced. The references that are made to the annexed plate, and which will necessarily be found rather numerous in the chapter on conformation, are so made by means of letters and figures, corresponding with simi- lar letters and figures upon the plate. The letters direct the reader's eye across the picture, the figures from top to bottom: when he is referred both by letter and figure, the place of intersection is the point to which his attention ought to be directed. Thus [Or. 37-] which, by placing a flat ruler, or a piece of paper, across at G. and run- ning the finger downwards from the figure 37, would be found to intersect each other at the insertion or commencement of the horse's tail; whilst [V. 40.] would bring us to the hindermost pastern. Again, [K. L. M. N. 14, 15, 16.] or [K—N. 14 —16.] directs the reader's attention to the shoulder-bone ; at [M. 20.] is his hearty and at [H. 29.] his kidneys are placed. The reader will please to observe, that the Frontispiece is meant to be, less what is termed w a, pretty picture than a practically use- ful one, calculated to facilitate his comprehension of what is said in this treatise about the living horse, his structure, and internal for- mation ; of his capabilities and all of the diseases arising from their misapplication. To this end, a mere elevation of the skeleton was requisite; and, that this should be rendered more practically useful, it is divided into squares, for more ready reference. The figure it- self, is that of a rather long bodied horse; the blade-bone having been lowered to show the continuity of the vertebra, or backbone, between the shoulders, and the elbow being bent forward for that purpose, so that the shoulder-bone is brought to form its sharpest angle. This position of the limb, of course, rendered the subject of the plate lower before than he would be were those bones more straight up and down than they are. See Section 8. He will observe, too, that the situation only of some internal parts was required for the purpose cf elucidation ; thus, the heart seems unsuspended by its vessels, as its pericardium and part of the lungs are removed; and it follows, that whcever expected to find a delinea-