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W. H. ALLEN & CO.

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MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE. 12mo.

Portrait of the Authoress. 5s.

By

With

MAYHEW

(EDWARD).

ILLUS

TRATED HORSE DOCTOR. Being an Accurate and Detailed Account, accompanied by more than 400 Pictorial Representations, characteristic of the various Diseases to which the Equine Race are subjected; together with the latest Mode of Treatment, and all the requisite Prescriptions written in Plain English. By EDWARD MAYHEW, M.R.C.V.S. 8vo. 18s. 6d.

CONTENTS.-The Brain and Nervous System. -The Eyes.-The Mouth.-The Nostrils.

The Throat.-The Chest and its contents.-
The Stomach, Liver, &c.-The Abdomen.-The
Urinary Organs.-The Skin.-Specific Diseases.
-Limbs.-The Feet.-Injuries.-Operations.

"The book contains nearly 600 pages of valuable matter, which reflects great credit on its author, and, owing to its practical details, the result of deep scientific research, deserves a place in the library of medical, `veterinary, and non-professional readers."-Field.

"The book furnishes at once the bane and the antidote, as the drawings show the horse not only suffering from every kind of disease, but in the different stages of it, while the alphabetical summary at the end gives the cause, symptoms, and treatment of each."Illustrated London News.

MAYHEW

(EDWARD).

ILLUS

TRATED HORSE MANAGEMENT. Containing descriptive Remarks upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables; likewise a plain account of the situtaion, nature, and value of the various points; together with comments on grooms, dealers, breeders, breakers, and trainers. Embellished with more than 400 engravings from original designs

made expressly for this work. By E. MAYHEW. A new Edition, revised and improved by J. I. LUPTON, M.R.C.V.S. 8vo. 12s.

CONTENTS.-The body of the horse anatomically considered. PHYSIC.-The mode of administering it, and minor operations. SHOEING. Its origin, its uses, and its varieties. THE TEETH.-Their natural growth, and the abuses to which they are liable. FooD.-The fittest time for feeding, and the kind of food which the horse naturally consumes. The evils which are occasioned by modern stables. The faults inseparable from stables. The so-called "incapacitating vices," which are the results of injury or of disease. Stables as they should be. GROOMS.-Their prejudices, their injuries, and their duties. POINTS.-Their relative importance, and where to look for their developBREEDING.-Its inconsistencies and its disappointments. BREAKING AND TRAINING. -Their errors and their results.

ment.

DAUMAS (E.). HORSES OF THE SAHARA, AND THE MANNERS OF THE DESERT. By E. DAUMAS, General of the Division Commanding at Bordeaux, Senator, &c. &c. With Commentaries by the Emir Abd-el-Kadir (Authorized Edition). 8vo. 6s.

"We have rarely read a work giving a more picturesque and, at the same time, practical account of the manners and customs of a people, than this book on the Arabs and their horses."-Edinburgh Courant.

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