A treatise on the prevention of diseases incidental to horses : from bad management in regard to stables, food, water, air, and exercise : to which are subjoined observations on some of the surgical and medical branches of farriery / by J. Clark.

  • Clark, James, 1732-1808.
Date:
1788
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Credit: A treatise on the prevention of diseases incidental to horses : from bad management in regard to stables, food, water, air, and exercise : to which are subjoined observations on some of the surgical and medical branches of farriery / by J. Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in a variety of refpe&s, render them liable to a long train of difeafes, which fooner or later prove fatal to them. The Britifh horfes are juftly efteemed the fineft in the world ; and, what is very remarkable, it is the fineft and beft of thefe horfes that too frequently are moft expofed to be hurt from an injudicious method of treating them. Whilft thofe of an inferior quality, being left more to themfelves, or, in other words, are allowed to live more agreeable to their nature,and free from thofe eftablifhed practices obferved in the more elegant ftables, perform the talk required of them to a good old age in health and foundnefs ; a mode of refinement, if it may be fo called, prevails in the ftables where fine horfes are kept, every thing re- fpe&ing the management of them is car- ried almoft to an extreme, infomuch that there is hardly any medium obferved. Thus, a certain degree of warmth is agree- able, and even neceffary, to horfes, yet they generally