The gentleman's stable directory, or, Modern system of farriery : comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident ... : to which is now added, a supplement, containing practical observations upon thorn wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness : with ample instructions for their treatment and cure : illustrated by a recital of cases ... : with a successful method of treating the canine species, in that destructive disease called the distemper
- Alternate Title
- Gentleman's stable directory
- Modern system of farriery
- Creator
- Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
- Form
- books
- advertisements
- Date
- 1793
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Horses
- Horses -- Diseases
- Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800
- Veterinary medicine
- Collection
- Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Publisher
- Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson ..
- Notes
- Edition varies: v. 2, third ed., carefully corrected.
- Vol. 2 has special t.p.: The gentleman's stable directory, or, Modern system of farriery ... containing experimental remarks upon breeding, breaking, shoeing, stabling, exercise, and rowelling. To which are added, particular instructions for the general management of hunters and road horses; with concluding observations upon the present state of the turf.
- Canine distemper is discussed in vol. 1, p. 481-502.
- Includes index.
- Vol. 2 with half-title.
- Advertisements on 7 p. at end of vol. 2.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3p55dx2v
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- LIBRA, Fairman Rogers Collection, 619.15 T16.2 1793
- Provenance
- Pearson, Leonard (stamp) (Fairman Rogers copy)
- Human, P. (autograph) (Fairman Rogers copy)
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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