The care of the brute beast: Animals and the seventeenth-century medical market-place

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 375-392

  Curth, Louise Hill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animals; Astrology; Early modern; Farriers; Galenic medicine; Horses; Veterinary

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HISTORY; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; ENGLAND; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 0036985819     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/15.3.375     Document Type: Article

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