The New-England farriery, or, A compendium of farrier : in four parts, wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated, with medical and surgical observations thereon ... : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett.

  • Jewett, Paul.
Date:
1806
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Credit: The New-England farriery, or, A compendium of farrier : in four parts, wherein most of the diseases to which horses, neat cattle, sheep and swine are incident, are treated, with medical and surgical observations thereon ... : intended for the use of private gentlemen and farmers / by Paul Jewett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Obfervations on piefer- ving Health, HEALTH, is that ftate of an animal body, in which all the functions relative thereto, are performed with eafe and agility ; the food received, is duly aflimulated to the nourifliment of the body, the fluids have a free, and equable round of circulation, and jjthe fibres or nervous fyftem, which is ac- counted the fpring of fenfation and motion, are not become rigid and ineiaftic ; which 'Would give rife to every fpecies of inflama- tory affection ; neither Oaxed, lax or weak, which would indulge a decline, and foon put a period to his exigence, In order therefore to fecure a f>crfe in a ft»te of health, and prevent a train of ills, we muft have fpecial regard to him, with refpeft to food, exercife and, /tabling. The intent of this tieatife is, act tolofe fight of the main object, while we are bufy with unneceiTary details—tbxfe ulo are fond of prolixity, may confult Clark's IV» WCry on the fubj«&,