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Anatomical Artwork Scans

1st January 1820

68 paintings depicting various sections of (mostly) horse limbs and organs, showing disease and damage. The artworks are mostly watercolours, and those that are dated or signed range from 1820-1848.

1 – “The Brain and Nervous System. Their Accidents and their diseases.”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: Megrims, out for a pleasant drive'; Phrenitis'; Sleepy Staggers'; Mad Staggers'; Head of a Horse with Hydrophobia' and 'The Last Stage of Hydrophobia'; Showing how far an animal with the disease [tetanus] is capable of motion'; ...

2 – “The Eyes.- Their Accidents and Their Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: Shyers'; Simple Opthalmia'; Simple Opthalmia - an eye showing the lasting marks of the lash'; Specific Opthalmia'; Specific Opthalmia- 'the upper lid inverted in Specific Opthalmia'; ...

3 – “The Mouth.- Its Accidents and its Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: 'The chief art in riding is to…'; 'Excoriated angles of the mouth'; 'The Angle of the Mouth…'; 'A Parrot Mouth'; 'Burning for Lampas'; 'Mouth injured by rider pulling…'; 'Mouth injured by the bit'.

4 – “The Nostrils.- Their Accidents and Their Diseases.”

31st December 1860

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This series contains original watercolours that were used to create woodcut engravings for publication in the chapter 'The Mouth.- I's Accidents and its Diseases' of the 1860 Mayhew publication 'The Illustrated Horse Doctor'...

5 – “The Throat.- Its Accidents and its Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: 'Bearing Rein and No Bearing Rein'; 'A Horse having a sore throat drinking the water returning it by the nostril'; 'Cough'; 'An Eight Tailed Bandage'; 'A contrast displaying the alteration in the position of the head induced by the bearing rein';...

6 – “The Chest and its Contents.- Their Accidents and their Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artwork including: "A steaming apparatus for diseases of the lungs"; "A Horse Dressed for Bronchitis"; "The Cough of Confirmed Bronchitis"; "Pneumonia. A Pleasant Sight"; "The Result of Pneumonia"; "Dropsy of the Chest or Hydro-Thorax";...

7 – “The Stomach, Liver etc.- Their Accidents and their Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: "Spasm of the Diaphram - The young man and the old Horse"; "Acute Gastritis"; "Chronic Gastritis"

8 – “The Abdomen.- Its Accidents and its Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: "Worms"; "Test for Enteritis"; "A quart syring for injecting the veins in Enteritis"; "Applying an Ammoniacal blister"; "Acute Dysentary"; "Acites"; "Influenza"; "Walking a Horse out after active measures during an attack of influenza"...

9 – “The Urinary Organs.- Their Accidents and their Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: "General symptom of disease of the urinary organs"; "Nephritis - Test for Inflammation of the Kidneys"; "Test for inflammation of the bladder "; "Haematuria ".

10 – “The Skin.- Its Accidents and its Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: 'Mange'; 'Mange upon the head of an old white horse'; 'Purigo'; 'Ringworm'; 'Hidebound'; 'Larva' or Larva; 'Chest Tumour and Cracked Heel'; 'Swelling or Filling in the Leg';...

11 – “Specific Diseases.- Their Varieties and their Treatment”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: "Paroxysm of broken wind"; "Listening to the trachea of a horse"; "A spleen taken from a horse"; "Melanosis"; "the colours liable to melanosis"; "Water Farcy' 'a carters suprise"; "Purpura Haemorragica";...

12 – “Limbs.- Their Accidents and their Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: "Bone Spavin"; "Vessels appropriate to the shin & Foot of the Horse"; "A Spavin or a spint upon the inside of the leg and upon the top of the shin bone"; "The bones of a spavined Hock"; "The natural position of a hind leg in the easy trot - shewing three quarters of the hoof";...

13 – “The Feet.- Their Accidents and their Diseases”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: "Lameness No. 1"; "Lameness No. 2 & 3"; "Lameness No. 6 & 7"; "Sandcrack No.5 & No.1"; "Sandcrack No.2 & 3"; " Sandcrack No.4"; "False Quarter"; "Seedy Toe"; "Overreach and Tread"; "Diagrams Illustration the production of corn";...

14 – “Injuries.- Their Nature and their Treatment”

31st December 1860

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Artworks include: "Poll evil No 1 – The mode of carrying the head before any tumour appears denoting the existence of poll evil"; "Poll-evil 1st stage"; "Fistulous Withers' 1st Stage and 2nd Stage"; "Operations No. 1 & 2";...

Vegetius, – “Artis veterinariae, sive Mulomedicinae libri quatuor, iam primum typis in lucem aedii. Opus sane in rebus medicis minime...

31st January 1528

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Contents Include: Artis veterinariae, sive Mulomedicinae libri quatuor, iam primum typis in lucem aedii.Opus sane in rebus medicis minime aspernandum; Illustrissimo Principi Ferdinando Regi Hungaria, Bohemiae &c [Illustrious Prince, King Ferdinand of Hungary, Bohemia etc.]; Epistola Dedicatoria. Serenissimo Ac Ilustrissimo Principi D. Ferdinando, Regi Hugariae, Bohemiae, Archiduci Austriae, Duci Burgandiae, &c. Domino… Epistola Dedicatoria [Letter Dedication];...

Spackman, Thomas – “Of The Madde Dogge…” (1613)

8th February 1613

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"Of The Madde Dogge: together with the Cure of those most dangerous wounds and fearefull accidents, hapning to man and beast through their bitings." Published 1613

Snape, Andrew – “The Anatomy of an Horse” Appendix (1683)

31st December 1683

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Chapters include: Section I. Of the Generation of Animals.: The Preface, Section I. Of the Generation of Animals.: Chap. I. Of the Vegetation of Seeds, particularly of a Wheat-corn, Section I. Of the Generation of Animals.: Chap. II. Of the first rudiment of an Egg, and what way it passes to the…, Section I. Of the Generation of Animals.: Chap. III. By what means and degrees a Chicken is formed out of an Egg...

Snape, Andrew – “The Anatomy of an Horse” Book 5 (1683)

31st December 1683

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Chapters include: Book V. Of the Bones, Chap. I. Of the nature, definition, differences and parts of the Bones, Chap. II. Of the Sutures or Seams of the Head, Chap. III. Of the proper Bones of the Skull, Chap. IV. Of the Bones common to the Skull and upper Jaw, Chap. V. Of the Jaw-bones and their Parts...

Snape, Andrew – “The Anatomy of an Horse” Book 4 (1683)

31st December 1683

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Chapters include: Chap. I. Containeth a description of the several sorts of Flesh, and an Apology for not expressing the Muscles so particularly in Figures as I have done other Parts of the Body, Chap. II. Of the Muscles of the Eye-lids, Chap. III. Of the Muscles of the Eye, Chap. IV. Of the Muscles of the Nose, Chap. V. Of the Muscles of the Lips and Cheeks...

Snape, Andrew – “The Anatomy of an Horse” Book 3 (1683)

31st December 1683

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Chapters include: Chap. I. Of the Head and Animal Part's contained therein, Chap. II. Of the Brain in general, Chap. III. Of the several Parts of the Brain, viz. that which is strictly called the Brain, the Cerebellum or After-brain, and the Spinal Marrow, Chap. IV . Of the Spinal Marrow contained within and without the Skull.

Snape, Andrew – “The Anatomy of an Horse” Book 2 (1683)

31st December 1683

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Chapters include: Chap. I. Of the investing and circumscribing Parts of the Chest, Chap. II. Of the Muscles of the Middle Venter or Chest, called the Intercostal Muscles, Chap. III. Of the Pleura, or Coat which invests or lines the Ribs on the Inside, Chap. IV. Of the Midriff or Diaphragm...

Snape, Andrew – “The Anatomy of an Horse” Book 1 (1683)

31st December 1683

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Chapters include: Chap. I. Of the Parts investing the whole Body, and first of the Hair, Chap. II. Of the Cuticle or Scarf-skin, Chap. III. Of the Cutis or true Skin, Chap. IV. Of the fleshy Pannicle, Chap. V. Of the Fat, and the Common Membrane of the Muscles...

Vegetius Renatus, – “Of the Distemper of Horses, and of the Art of Curing them: as also of the Diseases...

31st January 1748

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Contents Include: Translator's Preface; Index of the Chapters. Book First; Index of the Chapters. Book Second; Index of the Chapters. Book Third; Index of the Chapters. Book Fourth; Original Words frequently used in this Translations; The Preface; Book I. Chapter I. Of the Signs whereby the Sickness of Animals may be known...

Bridges, Jeremiah, ‘No Foot, No Horse: An Essay on the Anatomy of the Foot of that Noble and Useful Animal...

31st December 1752

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Chapters include: Treatise on the Feet of a Horse: Part I, Chap I - Of a Horse's Feet, and the Parts which compose them., Treatise on the Feet of a Horse: Part I, Chap II - Of the Use of the Parts of a Horse's Feet, in the same Order, as recited in the forgoing Chapter., Treatise on the Feet of a Horse: Part I, Chap III - Remarks on the Various Kinds of Feet and Hoofs met with in Horses, Treatise on the Feet of a Horse: Part I, Chap IV..

Snape, Edward – “A Muscular Preparation of an Horse” (1778)

31st December 1778

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St.Bel, Charles Vial de – “Plan for establishing an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine” (19, Mar 1790)

19th March 1790

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Excerpt: The general affluence of all orders of people in England, and the universal ardour for improving arts and perfecting institutions, by means of which, the interests of mankind at large have been eminently served, and the stock of human knowledge almost incredibly extended. In reverting to these establishments, we may discern the efficacy of opulence and patriotism uniting for the public service;...

Coleman, Edward – “Instructions for the Use of Farriers Attached to the British Cavalry and to the Honourable Board of...

31st December 1796

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Chapters include: Instructions for the Use of Farriers in Regiments of Cavalry, Inflammation of the Eyes, Inflammation of the Chest...

Townson, Robert – “Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology” (1799)

31st December 1799

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Chapters include: Physiological Observations on the Amphibia - Dissertation the First on Respiration, Anatomy of the Instruments of Respiration, On the Absorption of the Amphibia...

Boardman, Thomas – “A Dictionary of the Veterinary Art &c.” (1805)

31st December 1805

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