Hippopathology : a systematic treatise on the disorders and lamenesses of the horse : with their modern and most approved methods of cure : embracing the doctrines of the English and French veterinary schools; the opinions of Professor Coleman, Director Girard, Hurtrel d'Arboval, and other British and foreign veterinarians : with illustrative woodcuts / by William Percivall.

  • Percivall, William, 1792-1854.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Hippopathology : a systematic treatise on the disorders and lamenesses of the horse : with their modern and most approved methods of cure : embracing the doctrines of the English and French veterinary schools; the opinions of Professor Coleman, Director Girard, Hurtrel d'Arboval, and other British and foreign veterinarians : with illustrative woodcuts / by William Percivall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH. A KNOWLEDGE of health, and of the ways and means that tend to preserve and improve it, comes no less within the province of the veterinarian, than do the rules of science by which he is taught to understand and cure disease: in fact, so reciprocally do the states of health and disease run into each other, that without an acquaintance with the former we should oftentimes find ourselves unable to detect the latter. The na- tural habits and peculiarities of the horse become objects of study as essential as are the structure and functions of the va- rious parts of his body; it being by a close and consistent approximation to them that we are best enabled to keep the ani- mal healthy and vigorous in his state of domestication. Al- though health and disease are conditions equally familiar to us in their true or genuine characters, yet to append correct defi- nitions to them has perplexed our ablest medical writers ; the difficulty lying in drawing a line in the midst of those forms and stages through which one state disappears in the other—those faint and evanescent links by which the two ends of the chain are united. Our great moral philosopher, Locke, used to say, that if we would but rightly estimate good and evil, we should find they lie much in comparison: in like manner, we may briefly sum up the general nature and characters of health and disease, and, with Locke, pronounce, They lie much in com- parison.'* The Signs of Health, at least the outward signs, are too B