Farriery improved: or, a compleat treatise upon the art of farriery. Wherein is fully explained The nature, structure, and mechanism of that noble and useful creature, a horse, the diseases and accidents to which he is incident, with the method of cure. Delivered in as clear and intelligible a manner as the subject will admit. The use and aeuse of this science discovered; whereby any gentleman may be able to judge whether he is imposed upon or not by the ignorant grooms, and other pretenders to this art. Together with many necessary and useful observations and remarks concerning the choice and management of horses. Likewise a farther account of drugs and compound medicines used in farriery; with remarks, discovering whether genuine or adulterated, and their several prices, in alphabetical order, at the end of the work. Vol. II. By Henry Bracken, M.D. author of the notes on Burdon.

People / Organizations

• Henry Bracken (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for John Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; W. Strahan, in Fleet-Street; and B. Collins, in Salisbury, M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]

Publication year

1767-1767

ESTC No.

T96168

Grub Street ID

315634

Description

xvi,298,[22],4p. ; 12⁰

Note

With a half-title.

Sig. P3 verso and P4 contain advertisements, and the final four pages contain corrections to prices of drugs quoted in the text.