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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    CHAP. II. O F FOOD. IT is not to be expected that I fhould here enter into a minute detail on the different methods of feeding horfes for dif- ferent purpofes, or in particular fituations. It may fuffice to lay before the reader the different qualities of fodder and grain that is ufed for horfes, and to point out the ef- fects they produce on the body ; and the confequences that follow upon an improper ufe of them, by giving them in too great a quantity at^one time; likewife the con- feqijiences that' follow from the oppofite G extreme.