The country-man's guide or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W.
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- The country-man's guide or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W.
- Author
- Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
- Publication
- London :: printed for S. Lee, stationer, over against the post-office in Lombard-street,
- 1679.
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- Subject terms
- Domestick animals -- Early works to 1800.
- Horses -- Early works to 1800.
- Swine -- Early works to 1800.
- Sheep -- Early works to 1800.
- Cows -- Early works to 1800.
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"The country-man's guide or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A71265.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
HAving been importuned by divers of my Country-friends to publish the ensuing Rules and Directions, for the better ordering and curing of most sorts of Cattle of their Distempers and Maladies, that so the whole Kingdom might receive a general Benefit there∣by; I have at length taken upon me so to do, though not with a little Regret, as being very sensible how ill Entertainment this small Manual may receive from the hands of some particular persons, who (I doubt not) will not spare spending their censorious Judgments concerning it, to the depression of it, as much as in them lyes. But in regard it is not likely any may do so, without being obliged thereto by their own private Interest and Advantage, and never any thing comprehending the whole of this having been before published at so small a price.
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I shall not therefore wholly wave this my good design to my Country, seeing there is no other reason for it, than that this little Book may be prejudicial to the Monopoly that some Horse-Doctors have contracted to themselves, but proceed as chearfully as I can therein, for the best advantage to my Country-men. The Book consists of divers Choice Observations and Experiences of divers skilful English men. The whole is made very easie to the apprehension of the Reader by the Table preceding the Book, wherein every Disease is figured, and an∣swers the Figures in the Cuts placed a∣gainst the Table. And is further illustra∣ted and found out by the Alphabetical Table at the end of this Book. That this small Endeavour therefore may answer the Design it was intended for, is the only Desire of The Readers Hearty Well-wisher W.W.