b THE HOUSE AND ITS DISEASES. 



commanded that all the works on this important subject 

 that had appeared, should be collated, and the substance 

 of them formed into one body for the future guidance of 

 practitioners, and the preservation of the ancient opinions. 

 Prom this period we may date the improvement of 

 Farriery, and during this century many treatises upon 

 the subject appeared in different parts of Europe. Among 

 those to whom the science was indebted, maybe reckoned 

 the celebrated historian, Gessner, who compiled from 

 Aristotle, Pliny, Allian, Oppian, Varnon and many 

 others. During the seventeenth century, the art advanced 

 and numerous were the publications on the subject that 

 appeared in every country. In 1654, the Grand Mare- 

 schal, Francois, appeared ; a very large and meritorious 

 work, said to be composed by several hands. In 1675, 

 Gerard Blazius, a Dutchman, published in Amsterdam, 

 a treatise on the anatomy of the horse. 



The eighteenth century will ever make a distinguished 

 figure in the annals of history, for the great advance 

 that took place in the art. The names of the most 

 celebrated were Garsault, who translated Snape into 

 French in 1734. In the same year, T. and G. Saunier, 

 two Dutchmen, published their celebrated work. In 

 1749, Linnaeus published his Pan Succus, which is 

 rather an account of the habits and manners of domestic 

 animals, than any treatise on their disease. It was 

 about the middle of this century also that several of the 

 continental countries, opening their eyes more fully on 

 the importance of this branch of science, established 

 seminaries for the purpose of teaching it scientifically. 

 Monsieur Eourgelet, was a volumnious author. In 1750, 

 he published his elements of Farriery in 3 volumes; 

 in 1765, his Materia Medica, for the use of the Yeterinary 

 pupils. As a cotemporary Avith Bourgelet, the elder 

 La Fosse (a name that will ever be respected in the 

 annals of Veterinary medicine) made numerous improve- 

 ments and discoveries, which he usually communicated 

 in tlie form of memoirs to the world. In 1766, La 



