Stereoplea: or, the artificial defence of the horse's foot considered. Also hints for rearing young colts, sound and with good feet / [Bracy Clark].

  • Clark, Bracy, 1771-1860.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Stereoplea: or, the artificial defence of the horse's foot considered. Also hints for rearing young colts, sound and with good feet / [Bracy Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. During an indifferent state of health which I suffered in the year 1817, and very doubtful of what might be the issue of my illness, I re- solved to throw together, in as good order as the time would permit, a variety of loose remarks, made at different times, relating to the Horse, in order that they should not be entirely lost in case of the fatal termi- nation of my illness, and gave them to be printed under the title of, Stereoplea, or the Defence of the Horse’s Foot considered. It having pleased a kind Providence, however, to spare my life on this occasion, and to protract it to the present unexpected date, (1832,) and the above edition being long since out of print—for, being under many discouragements at the time, I printed only a small edition of it—so I now avail myself of the leisure which a few months' visit to the Con- tinent gives me, of revising this work, and of adding what further ap- pears necessary to make it a useful appendage to my other works on the Foot, by adverting to such parts or branches of the art as could not very well, or consistently at least, form any part of those works. In respect to the title I have chosen, I may here just remark, that the term Stereoplea is derived from the Greek word rrcgeou, to strengthen;