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    Open book showing on left a disease horse chart with lines leading from different parts of the horse’s body to numbers indexed on the facing text page
    Woodcut chart showing nude male figure facing front surrounded by disease labels linked to body parts.
    Woodcut chart showing a male figure facing front with the twelve symbols of the zodiac linked over the body parts and labeled with effects.
    Woodcut chart showing a horse in the middle of the page with the twelve symbols of the zodiac linked to parts of the horse’s body.
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    Disease chart showing a rearing horse with a great many lines leading from different parts of the horse’s body to disease names arranged around the edge of the page.

    “Disease Horse” from The Compleat Horseman by Jacques de Solleysel, 1696

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    About the Book

    An engraved frontispiece with the title in English printed over an arched doorway of a high stone wall surrounding a racetrack; handlers hold rearing horses in the foreground and a statue of a horse stands over the doorway.
    The Compleat Horseman by Jacques de Solleysel, 1696
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