Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary medicine. Maintaining the health of domesticated horses has always been a challenge. The domestic horse lives longer than the wild horse, which may be lucky to survive six or seven years. Horses selectively bred and kept in stables, for war and used extensively for transport, were prone to infection and other problems such as

You can tell the age of a horse by its teeth. the horse has milk teeth when born and these fall out between 2 to 3 years. The teeth of the horse erupt. The central area of the tooth gets wider and the teeth get longer. Short teeth are not necessarily young teeth the horse

These are the mallets that are used to tap the fleaming knife into the vein. Most racehorse trainers in the late 18th and early 19th century would have carried out this procedure on the horses they trained.  It was commonly thought good for the horse to loose a bit of blood. It may well have

It ws a very common practice to bleed horses. It was thought to increase their performance. The knife was tapped into the neck vein with a wooden mallet. It was swifly done and the incision was small and then an amount of blood would be let out. This knife and sharpening stone came from the

Man mischt 1 Tell dieses Fluids mlf 1 Teil Kalfen Wasser, Schulterfell des Tieres damif kraftlng ein. Dann frankt man nochmals verdunnfem Fluid und wickelt den kranken order geschwachfen Korpertell damit ein, das Tier glelchzeilig der Ruhe uberlassend. Medicines were not regulated. They would be made by veterinarians  and then sold to the stables. One