The Illustrated Horse Doctor

The Illustrated Horse Doctor is an account of the various diseases to which the equine race are subjected, together with the latest mode of treatment and all the requisite prescriptions. The book by Edward Mayhew says it is written in plain English and accompanied by more than four hundred pictorial representations. The advertisement says the publishers of the present work have long been impressed with the idea of a new book upon the Diseases of the Horse, written in simple language.

The text advises permitting no blisters and sanctioning no firing, since counter-irritants, however beneficial in other cases, are positive irritants when applied to a body nervously excited to the highest degree. The text instructs the reader to fix the horse catheter to the stomach-pump and then place the free end of the catheter in the nostril of the quadruped and push it forward. The text says water farcy, like so many equine disorders, is the offspring of weakness.