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BARTLEY (John). 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.1766

Eton: Printed for T. Pote, 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.

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