The gentleman's stable directory: or, modern system of farriery
Subtitle: Comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident; interspersed with occasional references to the dangerous and almost obselete practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others; also particular directions for buying, selling, feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting into condition for the chase; with experimental remarks upon the management of draft horses, their blemishes and defects. 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, including a variety of useful remarks. With a successful method of treating the canine species, in that destructive disease called the distemper. Inscribed to Sir John Lade, bart
By: By William Taplin, surgeon
Publisher: Printed for G.G.J. & J. Robinson; and C. & G. Kearsley
Published: 1791
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Horses; Diseases; Veterinary medicine; Early works to 1800; Horse racing; Breeding; Horseshoeing; Training; Hunters (Horses); Draft horses; Distemper
Notes: At head of title, v. 1: The eleventh edition, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected. At head of title, v. 2: A new edition, carefully corrected.

Vol. 2 has title: The gentleman's stable directory ... Containing experiemental 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 on the present state of the turf ...