108 Grease, 



-very readily at generous diet, combined with pure arr, green food^ 

 and gentle exercise. The sores way be \Tashed twice a day, with a 

 weak solution of blue Vitriol ; and if the strength and spirits of the 

 animal have been a good deal reduced, he may get one of the tonic 

 balls every night, for six or eight successive nights. 



After what has been advanced upon the subject of the cure 

 of Grease, it will not be necessary to take up much of the time of 

 my reader in detailing the means of prevention ; but it behoves 

 me, nevertheless, to bestow a few words upon the subject. For cer- 

 tain it is, that we shall rarely see any instance of this complaint, 

 even during the severest weather, provided Horses be well groomed 

 and regularly exercised ; more especially, if the) be kept in clean, 

 cool, and well ventilated stables. Indeed, it is almost incredible, to 

 what a certainty this disease may be prevented, by attention to these 

 circumstances. — Facts, however, are stubborn things, and carry 

 conviction to the minds of the most prejudiced ; I will therefore raen" 

 tion in this place, one, which speaks volumes in favour of the ar^ 

 guments, I have advanced, and which came within my own know- 

 ledge. — In the winter of the year 1806, a Regiment of Light 

 DragoonSj was quartered in the City of Dublin, and during the 

 entire winter, and following spring, not a single case of Grease 

 was found, in the whole regiment. Now, were we to take an account 

 of eight hundred Horses, belonging to private persons, kept in a 

 large town, through the winter season, we should in all probability 

 find, at least one in ten, that is to say eighty out of this number, more 

 or less affected with Grease ; so little bad blood does there circulate 

 in his Majesty's Cavalry Horses, and so clear from foulness are all 

 If 7?e{r humors. 



