The country-man's jewel: or, The jockey's master-piece : Part I contains plain and approv'd rules to choose, feed, and breed the best stallions, horses mares, or geldings. How to order and feed a race-horse. Also how to know a sound horse or mare from one that is distemper'd. With a collection of two hundred choice and approv'd receipts to cure all distempers, and different diseases in horses and mares. The like never before published. Part II prescribes cures for all distempers in black and white cattle; as horses, oxen, bulls, cows, calves goats, mules, asses, sheep, hogs, dogs, deer, hares, and conies. Also to destroy vermin. With directions for improving land to great advantage. To cure the biting of a mad dog / by M.S. [i.e. A.S.?] gent., L.M. J. Lambert, and others.
Alternate Title(s):
Country-man's jewel
Published / Created:
[London] : Printed for G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little-Britain, [ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:
118, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Caption title at head of p. 7: "The country-man, farmer: or, grazier and gentleman's compleat instructor".
Subject Terms:
Horses -- Early works to 1800. | Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800. | Animal culture -- Early works to 1800. | Veterinary prescriptions -- Early works to 1800. | Conyers, George, -1739 or 1740 -- Publisher. | Woodcut -- Specimens -- 1690.
Contributors:
Conyers, George, -1739 or 1740, publisher. | Mascall, Leonard, -1589. | Lambert, James, active 17th century. | A. S., Gent.