RUDDOCK, Edward H., and George LADE (editor).
The Pocket Manual of homoeopathic veterinary Medicine, containing the Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment of the Diseases of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Dogs, with the general Management of Animals in Health and Disease … revised and enlarged.
London, the Homoeopathic Publishing Company, and New York, Boericke & Tafel, 1878.
8vo, pp. xxxii, 134, 10 (publisher’s advertisements); some spotting throughout; a good copy in publisher’s green cloth, blocked in blind and black and lettered in gilt; lightly rubbed, end-caps a little bumped, hinges split; contemporary ownership inscription of E.G. Hyde to front free endpaper, a few early annotations in pencil.
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The Pocket Manual of homoeopathic veterinary Medicine, containing the Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment of the Diseases of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Dogs, with the general Management of Animals in Health and Disease … revised and enlarged.
Third edition, ‘fifteenth thousand’, of a very rare manual on veterinary homoeopathy. Of the annotations, the most notable strikes through the advice that ‘if cattle or sheep have a persistent cough, they should be at once prepared for the butcher’ (p. 33).
Copac finds one example of this edition (National Library of Wales), and only four copies of others, all undated (BL, Bodleian, CUL, NLS). None could be traced at auction.
