Encyclopaedia Britannica, or, a Dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : enlarged and improved. Illustrated with nearly six hundred engravings > Volume 8, ELE-FOR

Part I.
Hiftory. lt 'ls cond«^ed» certainly clafh. The body
of the pamphlet is occupied with a very neat view of the
confequences and treatment of wounds of joints, and
other circumfcribed cavities, and it is concluded by an
account of the regulations of the college (fee N° 77),
the lift of the medical committee, a lift of the examined
and approved veterinary furgeons that had at that time
paffed at the college, and lifts of the then managers
and fubfcribers to the inftitution.
Brace; _ The firft pupil of the college, as we believe, who
Clarke. diftinguiftied himfelf as an author, was Mr Bracey
Clarke; who, in the third volume of the Linnsean
Tranfa&ions, publilhed a very ingenious paper on the
bolts in horfes and cattle, of which we fhall fpeak here-
79 after.
Riding. About the fame time appeared a fmall volume on
Veterinary Pathology, by Mr Riding, veterinary fur-
go geon to the 18th regiment of dragoons.
Denny. fn 1802, Mr John Denny of the 10th dragoons
publifhed a fmall volume on the Difeafes of Jlorfes.
In this work Mr Denny has in general given the prin¬
ciples and practice of the veterinary college, and has
illuftrated and confirmed thefe by his own attentive
gI obfervations and long experience.
White. 1° the fame year appeared a very neat Compendium
of the Veterinary Art, by Mr James White, of the
1 ft dragoons. Phis is only a pocket volume, and of
courfe is very concife; but the author has given a very
comprehenfive view of the nature and treatment of dif-
. cafes, and of the late improvement in the art of ftioeing
introduced in the veterinary college ; and the work
will be found an ufeful companion to the young prac¬
titioner. This volume alfo contains the fubftance of a
former work, by the fame author, on the Anatomy and
Phyfiology of the Horfe’s Foot. In the year x 804, Mr
White publifhed the Veterinary Materia Medica, con¬
taining a brief defcription of the various fubftances em¬
ployed in farriery, with an account of their particular
effects on the body of the horfe. He occafionally in¬
troduces fome pertinent remarks on the difeafes of the
horfe ; and in the latter part of the volume, comprifing
the veterinary pharmacopeia, he has given a number of
the belt and moll: fcientific recipes that he had feen.
Phis work may be confidered as the fecond volume of
Mr White’s compendium ; and the author confidered
the two volumes as forming a complete fyftem of the
veterinary medicine. Phough we are difpofed to think
very favourably of thefe volumes, as a praftical com¬
pendium, we cannot help thinking that Mr White
might have contented himfelf with that modeft title
without affuming the more pompous one of a fyftem.
We muft alfo remark, that the materia medica, which
is not large, is unneceflarily fwelled by the admiflion of
many articles that feem to have been introduced mere¬
ly to tell us, that they are never ufed in the veterinary
pra&ice.
Mr White is alfo the author of an Addrefs to the
Royal Firft Devon Yeoman Cavalry refpe<fting the
management of their horfes, when employed on aftual
g2 fervice.
RicHard In the year 1802, or we believe, a little earlier, a
awrence. work of confiderable elegance was publilhed,. by Mr
Richard Lawrence, veterinary furgeon at Birmingham.
As we have not feen this work, we muft copy the fol¬
lowing account of it from Mr Blaine. “ It is much
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to be regretted that a gentleman who poflefles fo much Hiftory.
ingenuity, ftiould pafs over fubje&s of fuch importance v——y—j
in fuch a light curfory manner. The defcription and
treatment of fome difeafes occupy fewer lines than (to
treat the fubjeft in fuch a manner as to prove ufeful)
they would require pages. The plates are elegant, and
extremely well defigned, particularly thofe that regard
the proportions and paces of the horfe ; thofe that re¬
gard the internal ftru&ure and difeafes are not fo happy.
The di&ion is very fuperior. As a cabinet work, it is
moft certainly elegant and interefting ; but as a ufeful
affiftant to the art itfelf, it does not rank fo high.” g--
In the fame year was publiftied the firft part of aBoardmaa.
di&ionary of the veterinary art by Mr Thomas Board-
man of the third regiment of dragoons. This work
was intended to be completed in fixteen parts. The
author feems to have availed himfelf of the latell and
fceft information on the feveral articles that compofe his
work ; and he has introduced into it a variety of fub-
jecls on the principles of general medicine.
One of the lateft publications by pupils of the veteri-Feron.
nary college, is a new fyftem of farriery by Mr John
Feron, veterinary furgeon to the thirteenth regiment of
light dragoons. This work is printed in quarto, and
affords a good inftance to what extent a fmall quan¬
tity pf matter may be carried by the modern typogra¬
phical improvements of large type, broad margins,
wide fpaces, and frequent breaks. The work is indeed
very elegant both in type and m plates. It alfo con¬
tains fome ufeful information on the external ftru&ure
of the horfe, with a view to point out and illuftrate
what appealed to the author to be the moft perfe<fb
form of a blood horfe, with the blemifties and defefls
which appeared moft: likely to impede his velocity.
This appears to be the belt part of the work, and is
well illuftrated by the plates. The latter half of the
book is occupied with the confideration of difeafes; and
here we are led, from the author’s title page, to expefl
an account not only of the difeafes of horfes, but of the
principal epidemics to which cattle, fhee.p, &c. are
fubjeft. Thefe epidemics are however difeuffed in the
courfe of feventeen pages ; but we are given to un-
derftand that the author intends in a future publica-
tion to give a full comparative defeription, with the
proper mode of treatment of every difeafe that affedls
domeftic animals. Mr Feron’s obfervations are render¬
ed of lefs utility than they would otherwife have been,
by the want of a table of contents prefixed to the
work.
Ihefe are, we believe, the principal publications Freeman,
that have proceeded from the pupils of the veterinary
college. A few other works on veterinary medicine
ftill remain-to be confidered. In 1796, a very elegant
work on horfes was publiftied by S. Freeman, Efq. wftiofe
charatter is given by Mr Blaine as an amateur in the
manege, and a gentleman of fortune, learning, and great
ingenuity. This publication confifted in a defcription of
the fruciure and economy of the foot, accompanied with
a fet of plates highly finiftied in Skelton’s belt ftyle.
The fubjeas were diffeded under the infpeaion of Mr
Home, or an affiftant; and except fome flight errors in
the ligaments of the navicular bone, appear very cor-
rea. This publication, for the elegance of its engra¬
vings, and the general fpirit of the whole, will be long
without a competitor. It recommends a very ingeni¬
ous
FARRIERY.