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From a medical/scientific perspective, the Middle Ages may be considered to have ended with the introduction of mechanical printing at the end of the fifteenth century. ‘Proprytes and medicynes of hors’ was thought to be first printed in 1497 or 1498. This was followed by ‘Medicines for Horses’ somewhere between 1510 and 1560. There are no ascribed authors to either. However, such texts made little comment on traumatology, concentrating on remedies, topical applications, bloodletting and similar (now considered illogical) insults [1].

Equine fractures were mentioned by a French author Rusius in 1559 and Thomas Blundeville, an English mathematician (who invented the protractor), in The fower chiefyst offices belonging to Horsemanshippe published in 1565 described fractures as a form of ‘evil’ that, in common with wounds and ulcers, causes a ‘loosening or division of the unity’ [14]. Gervase Markham made comment on veterinary matters in books commencing with ‘A Discourse of Horsemanshippe’ in 1593. This was followed by Thomas De Grey's ‘The Compleat Horse‐man and Expert Farrier’ in 1639 and ‘The Anatomy of a Horse’ by A. Snape in 1674.