Regency Advertisements: Infirmary for Dogs and Mr. Blaine

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MR BLAINE No 8 ARGYLE STREET OXFORD ROAD Professor of Animal Medicine Author of The Anatomy of the Horse A System of Veterinary Medicine A Treatise on the Distemper in Dogs & c & c Presuming from his long attention to the Diseases of Dogs that he has been enabled to make some considerable improvements in their medical treatment he beg leave therefore to inform the Public that he may be consulted on their various complaints at home abroad or by letter on the following teuins For consulting him at home 5 but should a freA quent repetition of his advice be necessary for the ani mal the value of the medicines only will be charged Consulting him by letter if one only 7s if repeated is each The charge for attendance abroad is regiilai d by circumstances as the distance number if visits & c In any ease where a single visit only is required unless very near home 75 but when there is a necessi y of his visits 53 each except when the distance is very small or the arrendances are necessarily very numerous when each other visit only will be charged Infirmary for Dogs Many persons not having conveniences at th ir own houses for sick dogs or wishing them under his imme liate care has induced Mr Blaine to fit up some coin murious apartments for their reception near his own houe where they are treated with the grea est care and tenderness

This ad appeared in the October 1806 La Belle Assemblee.  He also advertised in his own booklet A Domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses and Dogs (1803):

BS Biof Advertisement bib MR BLAINE 8 ARGYLL STREET OXFORD STREET Surgeon and Professor of Animal Medicine CONTINUES to give his Advice on all the Diseases and Defects of HORSES abroad at home or by letter his capability for which he hopes is sufficiently evinced by his long attention to and public writings on every branch of the subject The Purchase of Horses to perfons unaccustomed to an attentive examination of their qualities lays them open to such a field of fraud and uncertainty that Mr BLAINE thinks he cannot render himself more useful than by coming forward to assist in this particular he will therefore give his advice and afliftance in the Purchase and Sale of Horses with disinterestedness and integrity Mr BLAINE's fuecess in the treatment of the Difeases of DOGS while pursuing his researches on the complaints of quadrupeds in general has drawn him into a very extensive practice among these valuable animals on whose various complaints he may be therefore regularly consulted at home abroad or by letter INFÍRMARY for Dogs Many persons not having conveniences at their own houses for fick Dogs or wishing them under his immediate care has induced Mr BLAINE to fit up near his own house fome commodious apartments for their reception where they receive the most kind and judicious treatment

A length review (we have only excerpted the first few paragraphs) of another of “Professor” Blaine’s work appears in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal (1804).

Art IV Tlie Ouilines of the literinary Art or the Principles Medicine as applied to a krowicise of the Structure functions and Economy of the corse the Ox the Sheep and the Dog and to a more scicntiiic a ni successfi Manner of treating their various Diseases The ihn illustra ed by Anatomical Plates By Delabore Blaine Profesoor in ii imal Medicine 2 Vols 8vo il 5s Loards Longman and Rees WE E find some degree of difficulty in reconciling the title assumed by this author to any acknowleged standard mexical ravk Professor is a high sounding word and thicugh it is not we presume intended to mean any thing higher than practitioner it nevertheless conveys the idea of a more than ordinary shore of erudition and consequence Ani inal niedicinc also is not withuit a portion of learned obscurity attached to it and might naturally b understood to apply to the diseases of the whole animal creation if we were not informed that the author deroses his attention exclusively those of the horse the ox the sheep and the dog This extensive work hili consists in tlic whole of above 1300 pages is divided into three parts The first gives a general view of the history of medicine both human and vete tinary and of the history and clements of chemistry and anatomy the second is confined to the anatomy physiology of the horse and the third treats of the causes symptoms and cure of the visuases of the horse ox sherp and dog In the execution of this comprehensive plan author upon the whole deserves considerable credit but we must not forbcar to add that his digressions are too frequent and that he is often unnecessarily prolix

We found several other books by Mr. Blaine as well as reviews into the years, where he is later referred to as a veterinary surgeon.

Mr. Delabere Pritchett Blaine even has a brief wikipedia entry that shares his clinic/kennel was in Wells Street in London, and that he struck up a partnership with William Youatt beginning in 1812 until 1824 when Youatt took over the business.

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