John Blunt, a surgeon from Leominster in Herefordshire, England, was one of a number of eighteenth-century surgeons who became interested in veterinary medicine. His work on farriery is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the horse in general including how to choose a horse, and proper feeding. The second section presents the diseases of the horse and their cures, and the last section provides information on medicines used to treat the various ailments.
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The Family-Dictionary was a widely read manual which combined domestic concerns such as cooking and cleaning with medical information. Although on the title page the author is given as J. H., the work has been attributed to William Salmon. William Salmon was a medical empiric, or unqualified practitioner. By 1671 Salmon had set up a practice near St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London where he was able to provide his medical services to those who had been turned away from the hospital. Although most scholars doubt that Salmon had any formal medical training, he collected medical books and had a large library which provided him with much of his medical information. He published a number of medical and surgical texts including Synopsis Medicinae and Ars Chirurgica. Salmon's medical recipes were prepared from readily available and inexpensive ingredients and his Family-Dictionary was very popular.
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Lydia Honeywood addresses her book "to all good housewives and those who are desirous of being such." In order to make her guide as complete as possible, she includes a section of recipes by a physician to cure a wide variety of ailments including scurvy, diabetes, gout, deafness, and dog bites. She concludes her book with a section of recipes to kill vermin.
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In this little manual written for farmers and anyone who deals with animals, the author shares his 35 years of experience working with cattle, sheep, goats, oxen, rabbits, and dogs. He provides recipes for curing many ailments including fever, cough, and sore eyes. A separate section deals with controlling all kinds of vermin. This popular little book was printed as early as 1676 and as late as 1783 with very few copies still surviving.
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This volume is a rare edition in Dutch of the greatest of the anatomical 'flap' books. The work features three full-page plates with dozens of detailed anatomical illustrations superimposed so that lifting the layers shows the anatomy as it would appear during dissection. Although flaps had been used in printing before, Remmelin was the first to use them on this scale. Eight prints of the plates were produced then cut apart and pasted together to form the layers. The first authorized edition was printed in Latin in 1619 with the title Catoptrum Microcosmicum. The plates were printed in 1613, and the text without the plates was printed the following year, both without the consent of the author. Although Remmelin's work was very popular and went through a number of editions, the format of the flaps was very delicate and not practical for the dissection room. Copies such as this one with all of the flaps intact are very rare.
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