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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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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    divisions or modes of progressions, which na- ture herself hath prescribed to the horse, and which, for that reason, with the leave of Michael Baret, and all other riding-masters, must be the best, he esteemed no saddle-horse perfect which had not been taught an arti-' ficial pace; without even excepting running horses, which he supposed by such means, might all be rendered stout and tough, what- soever nature might have previously decreed in their stamina or conformation. I wonder indeed he did not open an academy to teach Imman cattle to amble. This author assures us, with a gravity be- fitting the subject, that horses, as well as men, were originallj^ created perfect; but that the former have degenerated in consequence of the curse intailed upon mankind by original sin; which said curse, with all its lamentable results, necessarily extended to the brute creation. What a faultless race of coursers might have scoured along our plains, but for the theft of that fatal nonpareil; and what a serious business it was in the olden time, to rob an orchard. The authors, who next present themselves in our veterinary catalogue, are De Grey and Snape; of the former, whose book I have not looked into these many years, all I re-.