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Modern practical farriery : a complete guide to all that relates to the horse; its history, varieties, and uses, breaking, training, feeding, stabling, and grooming, how to buy, keep and treat a horse in health and disease ... forming a complete system of the veterinary art, as a present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London / by W.J. Miles ... with numerous illustrations and a series of anatomical plates, engraved from the original drawings from nature, by Benjamin Herring. To which is added an essay on the diseases and management of cattle, sheep, and pigs / by J.I. Lupton.

Miles, W. J. (William J.), Lupton, James Irvine. Diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs., Glasgow University Library · 1885 · London : William MacKenzie, [approximately 1885] · 39 pictures

A Victorian veterinary and farriery manual by W.J. Miles, with an appended essay on cattle, sheep and pigs by J.I. Lupton, issued in London by William MacKenzie around 1885 for horse owners, grooms and farriers. Engravings after Benjamin Herring's drawings give breed portraits in landscape, gaits and vices, outline anatomy, and diagrams of hooves, shoes and leg bones.

Blacksmithing · Veterinary medicine · Horses

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain)