id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt v692t43946z Janice Gunther Martin Unburdening the Beasts: The Equine Doctors of Early Modern Castile 2022 .txt text/plain 338 13 39 Despite the social and symbolic significance of equids and the dependence of Castile and so many other human societies on their health, historians have attended far less to veterinary compared to human medicine. I investigate what made these practitioners distinctive: their licensing and social organization, growing canon of texts and assertion of status, roles in legal medicine, and surgical skills. cache/v692t43946z.txt txt/v692t43946z.txt