Volume 1

A philosophical and practical treatise on horses : and on the moral duties of man towards the brute creation: comprehending the choice, management, purchase, and sale of every description of the horse; the improved method of shoeing: medical prescriptions and surgical treatment in all known diseases / by John Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, John, 1753-1839.
Date:
1810
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A philosophical and practical treatise on horses : and on the moral duties of man towards the brute creation: comprehending the choice, management, purchase, and sale of every description of the horse; the improved method of shoeing: medical prescriptions and surgical treatment in all known diseases / by John Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    (lowed with our favourite qualification- speed. The original breed of English horses has been long since entirely extinguished by that general improvement which has pervaded every quarter of the country ; a curious ob- server may nevertheless form a ver}'' good es- timate of its figure and merits, by examining our common road hacks, which shew little or no mixture of foreign blood, and the lower kind of farmer's-horses, to the breed of which, little or no attention has been paid. We are to except the Shetland ponies, and a few remaining Scotch and Welch mountain hobbies, which are probably the same race, in all respects, as when they w^re either first created upon, or imported into the Island. Every body knows the Northern ponies are very small, very hardy and durable, and amazingly strong in proportion to their bulk. The torrid zones, also, produce a very dimi- nutive species of the horse; some of them in Guinea, and the East Indies, are scarcely su- perior in size to large dogs ; but, unlike their peers of the hardy regions of the north, they are weak, delicate, mulish, and almost with- out use. The following anecdote of a post- man, and his little horse, is extracted from