The farrier's dispensatory
Subtitle: in three parts : containing first, a description of the medicinal simples, commonly made use of in the diseases of horses, with their virtues and manner of operation, distributed into proper classes, [et]c. : secondly, the preparations of simples, vegetable, animal and mineral, with an explanation of the most usual terms, both in the chymical and Galenical pharmacy : thirdly, a number of useful compositions and receipts suited to the cure of all diseases, never before published : as also those of greatest account from Solleyfill, Ruini, Blundevill, and other most celebrated authors, digested under their proper heads of powders, balls, drinks, ointments, charges, [et]c. : the proper method of compounding and making them, with many other useful observations and improvements tending to their right administration : to which is also added, a complete index of all the medicines contained in the book, whether simple or compound, with a table of diseases pointing to the remedies proper in each malady
By: by W. Gibson
Contributors: Jerry and Gene Jones Jefferson Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The second edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman ...
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Veterinary pharmacology; Early works to 1800; Materia medica; Horses; Diseases
Notes: Edition statement precedes author's name on title page.

Signatures: A⁶ B-X⁸ Y².

Bookseller's advertisement: prelim. p. [12].

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. With the binder's ink stamp of Lamb & Buck.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 944

ESTC T94762

LC copy gift of Jerry and Gene Jones.