The gentleman's stable directory, or, modern system of farriery. Comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies...To which is now added, a supplement / by William Taplin.

  • Taplin, William, 1740?-1807.
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The gentleman's stable directory, or, modern system of farriery. Comprehending all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies...To which is now added, a supplement / by William Taplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “Sele i BRIS TS 12] definition of this difeafe, that has for ages OC- cafioned infinite /ooks of furprife, and exertions of wi/dom, when invoking the interpofition of Minerva or Somnus, to elucidate a matter that even their IMMACULATE BARTLET did not condefcend to explain. And as his great pre- deceffor (who he has moft inceflantly and im- plicitly copied, ) after ringing the changes upon almoft Every difeafe, fixed his opinion of the caufe upon ‘“ immoderate feeding;” I fhali avail myfelf of the privilege afforded me in the ancient adage of ‘* Doéfors differ,” and declare I-attribute the cauvfe to HARD DRINKING. And although he declined faying much in favour of uIs opinion,-I fhall not omit to ‘advance a thefis is confirmation of minr. The dind of furfeit differing from the for- mer in caufé, but very little in efeé?, is that _ kind where, from ignorance, intoxication, or inattention, a horfe is fuftered to drink immo- derately of cofd water, when in a violent per- fptration, and the blood confequently in the higheft degree of circulation. The hock nature fultains by this revulfon will be inftantly conceived, even by a mind not