The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier
Subtitle: Containing, I. The most best approved method of ordering, dieting, exercising, purging, scowring, and cleansing of horses: also choice restoratives to chear the heart, procure an appetite, and to clear the lungs and pipes, so as to strengthen wind, and give large breath to the running or race-horse. 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, as to ordering, keeping, &c. Also mares, colts and stallions. V. A sure and certain rule to know the age of any horse, from one year to ten, with good observations as he further advances in years. VI. The best and experienced way of keeping the common hackney, or hunting horse, so as to keep him lively, chearful, free from colds, strains, windgalls, and gross humours. VII. An approved method of purging, bleeding and feeding cattle; with choice approved receipts for the diseases they are incident to: with signs to know the disease, and directions for the use of medicines. : To which is added: a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease
By: By J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 32419
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Sower
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Horses; Diseases; Veterinary medicine; Cattle
Notes: "To the reader."--p. iii, signed: J--.M--. [i.e., John Millis]

Recommmendation on p. [iv] signed by George Gilpin and three others.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁶ V⁶ W⁶ X-2B⁶ (2B5 verso, 2B6 blank).

Evans 32419

Minick, A.R. Maryland, 370

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