BOYLEN, P.W.

[Diseases of Horses].

Corning, New York, c. 1870. Manuscript in ink on paper, written in a crabbed but not impossible hand, 4to, pp. [164], with 5 further pages of receipts on loosely inserted folio sheets; original sheep backed boards; worn. A thorough treatise with numerous receipts by an upstate New York doctor (his name appears inside the back cover). In terms almost exactly the same as Coleman's (see item No. 21) Boylen berates the present state of the veterinary art and blames bad horse doctoring on 'the most ignorant class such as stage drivers and stallions Gromers (sic).' He suggests that rather than going to one of these 'horse doctors' you should go to your nearest physician 'as the diseases of horses and men are almost exactly alike.' The book seems to have been written entirely from personal experience, although the author implies that he has read a good many scientific works.

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