The farriers new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse. Being an exact and compendious description of all his parts; with their actions and uses: illustrated with figures curiously engrav'd on copper-plates. Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure. Wherein many defects in the farriers practice, are now carefully supply'd, their errors expos'd and ammended, and the art greatly improv'd and advanc'd, according to the latest discoveries / the whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c., by W. Gibson / [W. Gibson].

  • Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750.
Date:
1720
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Credit: The farriers new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse. Being an exact and compendious description of all his parts; with their actions and uses: illustrated with figures curiously engrav'd on copper-plates. Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure. Wherein many defects in the farriers practice, are now carefully supply'd, their errors expos'd and ammended, and the art greatly improv'd and advanc'd, according to the latest discoveries / the whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c., by W. Gibson / [W. Gibson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Major and Minor; the one being longer than the other, though jfomewhat flenderer 5 the longer arifes from the fame Origin with thofe above-de- fcribed, and endeth in a fmallround Tendon, which pafteth through the tranfverfe Griftle called Tro¬ chlea into the inner Corner of the Eye : This rol- leth the Eye inwards, as the other (which rifesfrom the Chink in the lower Part of the Orbit, and has the fame fnfertion with the Major) rolls it towards its outward Corner. . The feventh or round Mufcle is called the fuf- penforint or feptimus Brutorum, being peculiar to Brutes only. It is fhort and flefhy, encompalfmg the Opici^Nerve, and is infert^d in the hinder Part of the Cornea. This Mufcle is not only afMful in the Tonick Motion of the Eye, but is alio ufeful to keep the Eye fufpended, left, by looking con¬ tinually towards the Ground, it fhould hang too much outward, 0 SECT. II, Of the Mufcles of the Nofe, Lips and Cheek?, The Nofe is moved by four Pair of Mufcles, two The Nofe. Pair called the adducent or doling Mufcles, and ° two Pair term’d the abducent or widening Muf¬ cles. T he llrft Pair of the abducent arife from the up- F}xftpajr. per Jaw’-Bone near the firft proper Pair of the Lips, and are inferted partly into the lower Part of the Wings or griftly Circumference of the Nof- trils, and partly into the upper Part of the upper Lip. The fecond Pair take their Origin near the Eye, Second Paw-, with an acute and flelliy Beginning, and end on the Wings, as the other Pair, but more expanded. The Ufe of thefe two Pair of Mufcles is to draw the griftly Circumference or Wings of the Noftrils upwards, and fo to widen and open them. The other two Pair, or adducent Mufcles, arife. Third and die one from the Root of the Griftle, which afcend- fourth Pair. ing h > 0 v \ '' \ V . »