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Title: Pharmacopoeia Hippiatrica: or, the gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses; in two books. Containing, I. The surgical; II. The medical part of practical farriery; Also, Directions for the proper Treatment of Post Chaise and other Horses, after violent Exercise. With suitable Remarks on the Whole To which are now added; observations on broken winded horses, endearing to prove the Seat of that Malady not to be the Lungs. The second edition; by J. Bartlet, Surgeon; Author of the Gentleman's Farriery.
Description: Eton: Printed for T. Pote, 1766. Second edition, xiv, 400, [2, numbered 393 & 394 respectively]pp., previous owner's name cut from upper blank portion of half-title, without front-free endpaper, cont. calf, rubbed, joints cracked. "The 'Pharmacopoeia' was got up to sell; it is a curious mixture of surgery, medicine and pharmacy, together with a collection of recipes for diseases, and at the end a glossary of terms."—Smith. Smith II, p. 77.

Keywords: VETERINARY SCIENCE FARRIERY HORSES EQUESTRIAN

Price: GBP 155.88 = appr. US$ 222.59 Seller: Forest Books
- Book number: 34332