The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier : 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 J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

Author/creator Markham, Gervase
Other author Jefferies, G.
Other author Millis, John, editor.
Format Microform
Publication InfoBaltimore : Printed by Samuel Sower, M,DCC.XCVII. [1797]
Descriptionviii, 9-317 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 32419
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32419. ^A478749
General note"To the reader."--p. iii, signed: J--.M--. [i.e., John Millis]
General noteRecommmendation on p. [iv] signed by George Gilpin and three others.
General noteSignatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁶ V⁶ W⁶ X-2B⁶ (2B5 verso, 2B6 blank).
References Evans 32419
References Minick, A.R. Maryland, 370
References Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1192
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32419).

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