A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet : also, some new observations on the art and practice of farriery ; and on the nature and difference in the several breeds of speedy horses / by William Osmer.

  • Osmer, William.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet : also, some new observations on the art and practice of farriery ; and on the nature and difference in the several breeds of speedy horses / by William Osmer. 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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    PREFAGE. Here is another of those books on the Horse^ which he who runs may read, and all who read can understand. The sale of three impressions of his Treatise during the Author's lifetime, and the subsequent publication of a fourth, would be sufficient to obtain for it the character of being an estimable performance, even though it possessed n,o higher claim upon our respect, our gratitude, and admiration. Evidently derived from practice and close observation—as appears from intrinsic evi- dence, and sundry candid avowals, we were lately led to express some surprise, that the zeal for the welfare of the Horse_, which was so loudly manifested thirty-five years ago (if sin- cere) had induced none of the Members of the College then established, to modernise Osmer on Diseases and Shoeing, for the general instruction, as is this day done. This more especially, as very many of them have produced books, assuming- originality, upon the same topics, in which they have made free use of his doctrines and adopted