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    Woodcut illustration of two horses, in upper part of the page is a horse facing left with uplifted front left foot and tail, at bottom a horse facing right with all four feet on the ground.
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    Title page with large woodcut of horse facing left with uplifted right foot.

    Hippiatria sive Marescalia, 1532 by Laurentius Rusius

    Veterinarians relied on a set of Classical and Byzantine Greek texts called the “Hippiatrica,” which was based strongly on ancient Greek texts by physicians like Hippocrates.

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    Title page with large woodcut of horse facing left with uplifted right foot
    Hippiatria by Laurentius Rusius, 1532
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    Woodcut illustration of two horses, in upper part of the page is a horse facing left with uplifted front left foot and tail, at bottom a horse facing right with all four feet on the ground.
    Illustrations in Hippiatria sive Marescalia, 1532 by Laurentius Rusius

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