14 THE GREASE, 



the disease advances, the part affected becomes 

 extremely sore and irritable, so as to give ex- 

 cessive pain to the animal wiien he moves the 

 limb; at the same time the excoriation spreads, 

 destroys the roots of the hair, and creates a chan- 

 crous or pustulous induration of the skin, un- 

 derstood in farriery by the appellation of grapes. 



When the disorder has arrived at this state, 

 the horse is generally supposed to be foul and 

 full of bad humours. Bleeding, purges, and 

 diuretics are made use of, during the action of 

 which the fluids are absorbed and evacuated, 

 and the legs are relieved. This temporary ab- 

 sorption, however, serves but to palliate the com- 

 plaint, for its subsequent effects will be an in- 

 crease of the original debility, and with it an 

 increase of the disease. 



This objection to purges, it will be neces- 

 sary to inform the reader, includes only those 

 of the strong drastic kind. 



As 



