The farrier's new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse ... Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure / [W. Gibson].

  • Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750.
Date:
1731
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Credit: The farrier's new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse ... Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure / [W. Gibson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Encomiums on their Virtues and Excellencies* which, upon the ftrfoteft Examination, has proceeded more from a fond Opinion he has had of them, than from any real Virtues in them: Befides, that many of them are fc collly, that in the Procefs of fome regular Cures, they null exceed the Price of any ordinary Horfe. Neither has he been able to obviate the Objections, •which we find have been made to himfelf, for infert- Ing fuch vaft Numbers of Remedies; for what he al¬ ledges concerning the Variety of Conftitutions, is ve¬ ry little to the Purpofe, fuch a Medicine of the fame Intention need only be made flronger or weaker in the principal Ingredients • or if any Alteration be neceffary, that ought to depend upon a Change or Complication of Symptoms ; all which fnould be clearly explained by thofe who deliver Inftituttons of Cure. And as for his Chymica! ProcelTes, we look aipon many of them as unneceffary Implements, which only help to fill up his Book, and ftiew more of Pomp and Oftentation, than any real Ufe 5 efpecialiy fince there are but few of them which vary much from the common received Forms ; and if it was otherwife, they could not ealily be complyM with by any who are unacquainted with the Chymift's Art, or unpro¬ vided with the Inftruments that are proper to make them. “ But if SbUeyfeUy who is defervedly reputed the befl J Author, was even faulty in thefe Refpeds, notwith- 1 Handing all the Pains he had taken; What can we hope from thofe of lefs Learning and Ability, who have only delivered Things at fecond-hand ? Of thefe, all Nations have produced fufficient Store, whofe • Precepts have been as much, if not more, followed than Original Authors; but none have been fo much abus’d that Way, as ourfelves; For altho5 we have had the Reputation of improving many Arts beyond what others have done 5 and tho' that of Horfemanfiiip was even