Dowing (J[oseph]) A Treatise on the Disorders incident to Horned Cattle

Dowing (J[oseph]) A Treatise on the Disorders incident to Horned Cattle

Dowing (J[oseph]) A Treatise on the Disorders incident to Horned Cattle, comprising a description of their symptoms, and the most rational methods of cure ... to which are added, receipts for curing the gripes, staggers, and worms in horses; and an appendix, containing instructions for the extracting of calves, Stourbridge: sold by T. Hurst, Longman and Rees, Rivington, 1797, [re-issue of the first edition, published the same year], 8vo, lacking the half-title, numerous blanks bound in at the end, with fourteen pages of manuscript remedies, modern half calf and marbled boards, endpapers renewed



Footnote:

Downing’s treatise contains details of symptoms and treatments for diseases in cattle, together with a small number of remedies for maladies in horses. Most of its over 250 subscribers listed at the end are from Stourbridge and Worcestershire.