The gentleman's stable directory [electronic resource] : or, modern system of farriery. 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 Occasionar References to the dangerous and almost obsolete 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 William Taplin, Surgeon.