Bartlet, John:

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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 ... The exceptionally scarce first American edition of English physician John Bartlet's The Gentleman Farrier's Repository. Printed in Philadelphia in the first year of the Revolutionary War, this edition retains Bartlet's dedication to the Duke of Cumberland, the brother of King George III. John Bartlet was one of the many physicians and surgeons who came forward during the cattle plagues that broke out in 18th-century England to help fill gaps in veterinary knowledge left by less than knowledgeable farriers with little or no training in the biological sciences. Bartlet wrote two major works: The Gentleman's Farriery in 1753 and the present work in 1764. Rather than being an actual pharmacopaeia, The Gentleman Farrier's Repository is a work on horse surgery and medicine expanded from Bartlet's earlier work, which itself was a compilation of selected techniques and prescriptions presented in previous farrier manuals. Although Bartlet's manuals were collections of previously published material, they were of great use to the layman as Bartlet was careful to select only those techniques and prescriptions that had actual utility, editing them for accuracy and presenting them in a simplified, easy-to-follow style. In December of 1776, just a year following the publication of The Gentl

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