Bracken henry 1697 (1 Ergebnisse)

Third American Edition. Third American Edition. With 10 mostly folding plates. iv, [5]-144pp. 12mo. The ten cuts from the first edition are on 8 plates, plus The Age of a Horse by the Teeth, and the frontispiece, Blacksmith Murdering a Poor Horse. Henry Bracken (1687-1764) began his practice as a physician and surgeon and, as a horse owner and patron of the turf, turned his hand to veterinary science in an era when most practitioners were abysmally ignorant. He was among the first to diagnose equine ailments, rather than simply treating the symptoms. "No previous writer had drawn attention to the matter, while among the general public an entire absence of education was apparently regarded as the first essential of a veterinary practitioner." (Frederick Smith, The Early History of Veterinary Literature.) The book, first published in 1738, went into a dozen English printings, and at least three in the United States, all of them scarce. Contemporary red quarter moroco and marbled boards With 10 mostly folding plates. iv, [5]-144pp. 12mo.…