Cursory account of the various methods of shoeing horses ... with incidental observations.

  • Moorcroft, William, 1767-1825.
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cursory account of the various methods of shoeing horses ... with incidental observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    I have not the honour of being a medical man, but a private gentleman, retired from the army-rank of captain, having become incapable of duty, from the Rupture daily becoming worfe than ever, down twenty times in a day, and have ufed a few medical terms for the fake of decorum. From my earlieft remembrance, I recoiled: a particular formation in my left teftes, which was in an artificial fac : at the age of twenty-two, riding on horfeback, both the omentum and inteftine defcended into this fac, and was there incarcerated many hours with dreadful agony. I did not then know what a Rupture was. My furgeon in the country, who reduced it, fent me to a trufs^ maker in London, and who was one of the bed:: he made an excellent formed trufs.—■ The late eminent Mr. Potts, furgeon, to whom the world will ever be indebted, in- fpedied and approved the old mode of put- ting on this trufs. I found the trufs of little ufe: the thigh ftrap, which was of cotton, was not fixed to