Skeavington’s Modern Farriery Described and Illustrated in the Management of Horses. Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry,

Title

Skeavington’s Modern Farriery Described and Illustrated in the Management of Horses. Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry,

Description

Skeavington's Modern Farriery (Vetrinary) Including the Management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry, etc., etc.,: Their Treatment in Health and Disease; with Practical Information On All That Relates to Farming, Gardening, Shooting, Angling, etc.-. Describes and illustrates the treatment in health and disease of horses on 364 pages, dogs on 124 pages, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry,... Furthermore, practical information on everything that has to do with farming, field work on 102 pages, dogs on 124 pages, hunting on 119 pages, angling on 8 pages etc. Structure of the book 2 title pages, foreword J.S., index of illustrations, general introduction signed. John Scherer, p. 1 - p. 1011, index of the 12 subject areas. On 86 pages 1-2 steel engravings, 3 folding maps of horses (e.g. anatomy of the horse). After drawings by renowned artists such as E. Landseer, A. Cooper, Herring and many others. Printed by John G. Murdoch.

ca. 1860

Artist

Scherer

Historical Description

The first documented animal healer was Urlugaledinna, who lived in the Sumerian city of Lagaš in Mesopotamia in 2200 BC. The Egyptian papyrus of Kahun from 1900 BC is one of the first documents to document veterinary medicine. The most comprehensive veterinary work of antiquity was the short Mulomedicina or the four books Artis veterinariae sive mulo-medicinae libri quatuor by Publius Vegetius Renatus from the 4th century BC. The compilation of ancient writings on equine medicine, the Hippiatrica, appeared in the 5th or 6th century BC. In the Middle Ages, the six-part manual of equine medicine Hippiatria was written around 1250 by Jordanus Ruffus, the chief court marshal of Frederick II. One of the most widespread writings on equine medicine, which was translated into many languages from the 13th to the 18th century, was the so-called Rossarzneibuch by Master Albrant, who worked in Naples as Emperor Frederick II's groom.