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.

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    A VOCABULARY OF SYNONYMES; AND OF Such hard Words, local Names, and scientific Terms, used in this Volume^ as seemed to require elucida- tion for ordinary Readers. See, also, the Index. Anchylosis, stiff joint. Aqua-fortis, nitrous acid, weak. Articulation of bones ; their junction, and correspondence in shape of the ends with each other. Charge, an application external, and is either poultice or cataplasm. Coffin (the), the outer wall of the hoof, and is that part of the foot we see when looking at the horse in front and laterally. Now wall, crust, hoof. Coffin-hone, so called from being the chief bone that occupies tlie coffin or hoof. Cornet, the horn of stag or buck, made laucet-wise, for bleed- ing in the mouth, &c. Coronary-hone, the small pastern.—See page 7, note, and page 15, note. Coronet, or Coronary-ring, encircles the upper part of the hoof, where its wall joins the hair: formerly pronounced Cronet. Crust, that part of the foot which is visible to us while the hoi'se is standing. Deflagration, burning, though not wholly destroying. Deobstruents, medicines that open or remove obsti-uctions of the vessels or glands. Many simples have this efl'eqt, that may not be ranked among medicines, operating slowly but certainly : many of the grasses also possess this quality ; and those which grow near the sea invariably. Discuticnts, a surgical term applied to such substances as have the power to discuss, separate, and drive away the morbid matter of tumours. Epidemic. When a disease affects numbers of cattle it acquires this term ; when confined to a given district they term it Endemial.—See Index. Eschar, a scab or hard crust on the flesh. Fetlock, a small tuft of hair behind the joint formed at the upper end of the pastern; this has acquired also the term fetlock-joint. Fleam, or Flaim, a lancet to bleed horses, being placed at the side of the main blade, which is to be hit wuth the blood-stick. Foetus, the young animal in the womb, until near the time of foaling.