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| A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Foot of the Horse / BUDD Richard Hayward, 1816 | |||||
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Foot of the Horse, containing a correct
description of their nature, causes, and methods of prevention : with suggestions
of improved plans of treatment, founded of physiological principles. Also rules of
shoeing ; by which the ordinary evils attending this process may be in some measure
prevented. Dedicated, by Permission, to Sampson Hanbury, Esq. — By Richard Hayward
Budd, veterinary surgeon.
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BUDD Richard Hayward
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« Since my first entrance into the Veterinary Profession, I have not been an inattentive
observer of the destructive effects of disease on the Foot of the Horse ; and it appeared
to me that Veterinary Practitioners, however correct and minute they may have been
in speaking of the constitutional diseases of the animal, and their treatment, had
not bestowed even the necessary degree of attention on those occurring as the result
of injuries sustained by this particular part. I was led to thisconclusion by observing
how tedious and unsatisfactory was the usual progress of cure in such diseases of
the Foot as were considered curable, and the great number of animals which were led
to the slaughter-house in consequence of disease of this part originally produced
by accidents of the most trifling nature. The immense number of horses of all kinds
which were thus annually sacrificed, seemed to be a consideration sufficiently important
to warrant a minute investigation; and, as a preparatory step towards the discovery
of any thing connected with this subject, which may have previously not been very
generally known, I was induced to refer to those writers who had bestowed attention
on it : nothing satisfactory, however, was the result ; and I was left almost entirely
without assistance, to pursue the object I had in view. A series of experiments, comparative
of the effects of the most successful of the plans usually employed, with others,
which a physiological view of the subject seemed to dictate, has clearly convinced
me that the grand cause of the obstinacy which such diseases have manifested, has
been, impropriety of treatment. It has long since, indeed, appeared to me, that such
extremely severe and destructive applications as are commonly used, could not be generally
necessary ; but inquiry only could enable me to obtain that knowledge, of the disease
in which they were employed, necessary to speak decisively of their effects ; and
I am now warranted in the assertion, that the most common methods of treatment adopted
in many of the diseases of which I have spoken, instead of hastening the cure, tend
diametrically to oppose the means which nature herself would, unrestricted, adopt
for such a purpose.
Whole volumes have been written respecting the practice of shoeing, and the best methods
of preventing contraction : new fashions of the shoe were successively produced, as
calculated to effect this object; and these fashions were honoured by their inventors
with the title of Principles; hence "Shoeing upon a new Principle" never failed to
attract attention, as it held out a hope of escaping the mischiefs which were known
to attend the preceding.[…] » Présentation de l’éditeur (1816)
« Il existe deux éditions américaines, la première parue en 1825 à Baltimore chez J. Robinson; et une seconde, parue en 1831 chez D. Murphy. » Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval