A compendium of practical and experimental farriery : originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice ... Interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease / [William Taplin].

  • Taplin, William, 1740?-1807.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A compendium of practical and experimental farriery : originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice ... Interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease / [William Taplin]. 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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    fpring water a quarter of a pint; then add Tin£ture of Myrrh, one ounce. SANDCRACKS and RINGBONES, For permanent relief or fubftantial cure, fubmit only to the Operation of Firing, and that in the hands of thofe perfonallj qualified to execute the truft with a proper degree of manual dexterity ; the great art of decifion depending upon the line of cri- terion^ doing neither too little, nor T09 MUCH. MALLENDERS and SALLENDERS, Are too well known in their fituation and appearance, to ftand in need pf much de- fcription ; they confift of acrimonious fharp difchaj-ges, or dry harfh fcurf or fcabs at the backs of the knees, and the infide of the hocks behind, and are only to be got rid of by the following means. If recent and but newly obferved, frequent fubftantial wafliings with thin gruel and daily impreg- nation