Career
The work was published at the desire of the numerous gentlemen and farmers who were Clater"s employers, and appears to have roused the hostility of farriers generally. The writer insists chiefly on careful diagnosis of individual cases, and the use of pure drugs. Clater afterwards resided for many years at East Retford, where he practised as a chemist and druggist, as well as a cattle doctor, and, according to the inscription on a small memorial tablet set up in the methodist chapel in Newgate Street in that town, was much respected, and there died, on 29 May 1823, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.
In the later ones — as the edition of "Every Manitoba his own Farrier" by Mayhew, published in 1850, and of the "Cattle Doctor" by Armytage, published in 1870 — much exploded conjecture has been omitted, and the text almost entirely rewritten.