Item F3885 - Professor Edward Coleman's lectures on the veterinary art : delivered at Guy's Hospital

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F3885

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Professor Edward Coleman's lectures on the veterinary art : delivered at Guy's Hospital

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  • 1815-1817 (Creation)

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245 leaves ; 19 cm.

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(1765-1839)

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Edward Coleman was born in 1765 in Burmarsh near Dymchurch, Kent, England, though some sources cite a birth year of 1766. Attended the Borough School of Medicine, London, and apprenticed under Dr Charles Kite in Gravesend. Won a prize from the Humane Society in 1791 for an essay on resuscitation. Married Sarah Slack. Practiced as a medical surgeon before being appointed Professor at the London Veterinary College (now known as the Royal Veterinary College) in 1794, a position he held for over thirty years. Became a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1831.

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Previously catalogued in the Fryer Library rare books collection: SF745 .C64 1815

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Series of lectures bound into one volume. Rebound by The University of Queensland Library in 1962 according to a pencil annotation on the paste-down inside the front cover. The lectures, handwritten in ink on laid paper, discuss the anatomy, physiology and pathology of horses. Includes some advice on how to care for them, from sheltering to shoeing. Lectures are inconsistently numbered (up to fourteen) and dated. Dates range between 1815 (with a lecture titled 'introduction') to the final lecture on 2 May 1917.

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Unrestricted access.

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Out of copyright. Able to be reproduced without permission. Please attribute the Fryer Library.

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  • English

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991014540380703131

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SF745 .C64 1815

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991014540380703131

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Created, Kymberley Bax, 22-Mar-2024.

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