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the warm wax will not stick to it. If the opening he in the sole, 

 shoe with leather soles, tar and cotton, until the hole has grown 

 out or closed up. 



Grease. — This is a disease of the heels and legs of horses, 

 characterized by an unsightly condition of the parts. The whole 

 being the result of suppurative inflammatory action of the skin 

 and heels of the hind legs, usually, but sometimes of the fore 

 ones ; is more common in coarse-bred western horses, and heavy 

 breeds, than in well or fine-bred horses. 



Cause. Sudden changes of the temperature of the earth, 

 whether from heat to cold, or from wet to dry. This disease al- 

 ways follows sloppy or wet streets, stables or lands, producing a 

 relaxed condition of the parts from too much moisture. 



Treatment. Keep the legs clean and dry, and apply a mixture 

 to the heels twice in the twenty-four hours. AVater, one pint ; 

 sulphuric acid, two drachms ; corrosive chloride of mercur}^ one 

 drachm. Mix, and shake up before using. Many cases are readily 

 cured, by simply keeping the heels clean, and anointing with 

 glycerine, or lard, having no salt in it. It must be confessed by 

 everybody, who has had any experience at all in the treatment of 

 this disease, that there is uncertainty of an early cure ; some cases 

 will be cured in a short time, and in others it would seem that the 

 discharge would never dry up and be healed. For cases that prove 

 obstinate, the following plan will effect a cure, when other vaunted 

 remedies have failed: Take one box of concentrated lye, and dis- 

 solve it in two quarts of water, and bottle up for use when wanted, 

 in the following way: Pour a wine-glassful of the solution of lye 

 into a small bucket of cold water, and wash and bathe the heels 

 and legs for half an hour, morning and night. A great change for 

 the better will be seen in a day or two. This wash seems to have 

 the power of relaxing and softening the skin, and at the same 

 time causes the legs to sweat greatly. Dry them as often after 

 the bathing as you like, there will pour out great quantities of 

 moisture from the skin as soon as you have done. 



Shot of Grease. — This is a different disease from the one de- 

 scribed, from the fact that it attacks only one leg, and that one of 

 the hind ones, and comes on in a night, without any preceding 

 symptoms whatever, and hence it is called a shot of grease. Thero 



