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CLATER, Francis. Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor: Containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of All the Diseases Incident to Oxen, Sheep, and Swine; And a Sketch of the Anatomy and Physiology of Neat Cattle. Edited, revised, and almost rewritten by William Youatt, with numerous additions, embracing an essay on the Use of Oxen, and the Improvement in the Breed of Sheep, &c. by J.S. Skinner.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844. First US edition. 8vo., cont. half leather, marbled boards, leather spine label, 251pp. With some illustrations in the text. Binding rubbed and worn, spine chipped, o/w a better than good but not very good copy.
The preface states that “improvements in the veterinary have kept pace with the progress of other useful arts, until it has reached, in practice, a high degree of certainty, and of honour as an intellectual profession” and that the book has been compiled “not by ignorant cow-leeches, and made up of nostrums to be administered without judgment or discretion, but embodying the mature results of careful and scientific research.”