Handbuch der Pferd - und Vieharzney - Kunde ....

Philadelphia: For the Author by H Hory, 1832. First Edition.. Contemporary leather backed boards.. A good copy; some foxing throughout; joints chafed; binding rubbed.. 8vo, 376 + [8] pages

Zünd was a graduate of the Royal Austrian Veterinary School. A student of such notables as Bidl, Erdely, and Langenbacher. The book offered here is no simple summary of remedies. It is a complex medical tract on veterinary medicine and diseases of the horse. It is unlike other American books of the period because it is written from an informed scientific viewpoint. Prior to Zünd's tract such treatises were based on a folk medicine tradition that circulated as small pamphlets among the agricultural communities. It is doubtful that Zünd's informed and lengthy book had a wide audience (indicated by the fact that it was self-published) in the farming communities where traditional "remedies" would have been hard to supplant. The final 8 pages of text contain a German/English medical vocabulary, index to the text, a final index arranged by wound type for quick reference, and the errata. The book also bears the contemporary ownership signature of John L Meyer, Dec. 15, 1832. Tucher # 2221; S & S # 17203.