The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier.
Subtitle: Containing, I. The most best approved method of ordering, dieting ... and cleansing of horses: also choice restoratives ...  II. A certain sure method to know the true state of any horse's body, as to sickness or health.  III. The true shape of a horse explained; with choice directions for buying.  IV. An experienced and approved method for raising of horses ...  V. A sure ... rule to know the age of any horse ...  VI. The best ... way of keeping the common hackney, or hunting horse ...  VII. An approved method of purging, bleeding and feeding cattle; with ... receipts for the diseases they are incident to ...  To all which is added: a ... collection of the surest ... receipts for the cure of all maladies ... that are incident to horses ... with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease.
By: By J. Markham, G. Jefferies, and discreet Indians.
Contributors: Jefferies, George.; Millis, John, d. 1767.
Publisher: Samuel Sower
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Notes: Evans 32419.

"The basis of this volume was an English book by J. Markham.  John Millis, a farrier residing in Chester County ... gathered a large number of proved receipts from George Jefferies, of Bradford Township, a noted farrier, and others, and included the whole, with his own experience, in this publication." - Futhey, J. S., and Cope, Gilbert.  Hist. of Chester County, Penn. 1881, p. 312.

"He [Markham] was the author of numerous works on farriery and horsemanship, so similar that it appears impossible to tell on which of them the work published by Millis was based." - Hawkins, D. L., in Bibliographical Society of America.  Papers, v. 28 (1934) p. 41.

"A table of drugs and herbs, and where they may be had": p. 295-300.

First published in Wilmington, Del., in 1764.

WSU:WSU Archives copy imperfect; wanting front end paper.