The Belly of a Horse (1820)

Anatomical diagram from William Carver's Practical horse farrier, or, The traveller's pocket companion: shewing the best method to preserve the horse in health; and likewise the cure of the most prominent diseases to which this noble animal is subject, in the United States of America : the whole being the result of nearly forty years' experience, with an extensive practice, published in 1820.

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