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. The whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c / By W. Gibson.

  • Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750.
Date:
1735
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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. The whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c / By W. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    teries, &c. and is alfo porous for the Palfage of Sweat, or other perfpirable Matter, which is feparated from a vaft number of little Glands, which lie on the Infide of it; and as the Scarfskin is a Defence to the Hide, fo the Hide is a Defence to thofe other Parts which lie under it. Underneath the Skin is plac’d the flelhy cri n n n Pannicle, which is mufcular, and helps to draw the Skin into Wrinkles, by which means a Horfe throws off the Dull, Flies, or other Things that hurt him. It is alfo nourifh’d with its proper Veins and Arteries, &c. and befides its peculiar Ufes, it ferves, in concert with the Skin, to defend the Body from external Injuries, viz. by keeping it warm in Winter, and prevent¬ ing a too great Exhalation of the Spirits in hot Weather. §•11. 0/ the Fat and common Membrane of the Mufcles. Befides thefe Teguments abovemention’d, r/ there is the Fat, and common Membrane Lbefat° of the Mufcles. The Fat which lies between the flefhy Pannicle and the Paid Membrane, is diltinguifh’d from that which covers the Caul, by its oilinefs, and is faid to be generated of the more undtuous Particles of the Blood, working thro’ the Velfels, and detain’d there by the clofe- nefs of the faid Pannicle. It is not one continu’d Covering in Horfes, as in Bullocks, and fome other Animals, but chiefly fills up the Interlaces of the Mufcles externally, and is not only a Defence, as the other Teguments are, but ferves to make a Horfe look plump, fmooth, and beautiful. How far it is capable of being again converted into Nourifhment, I fhall not offer here to determine. As to the Membrane of the Mufcles, which is the innermoft of all the common c°mmon Teguments, it is faid to take its Origin from the Back 5 and fpreading itfelf all ^ over the Body, is knit to their proper Coats by a great number of fmall Fibres, yet not fo clofely as to hfnder their Adtion : It is in a Horfe confiderably thick, and ferves to ftrengthen and confirm all the Mufcles in their proper Situation, and to be a Capfula, or Cafe, to defend them from Injuries.