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is no cracking of the skin of the heels or legs, but it remains 

 whole and unbroken. 



Cause. Robust stamina, or too fat and full of flesh, and to get 

 rid of this superfluity, plastic lymph is thrown into one of the 

 hind legs, which causes swelling of the leg to an enormous size. 

 If this material were thrown from the blood into one of the fore 

 legs, where the nearness to the heart increases the activity of the 

 capillary circulation, matter would not remain as it does in the 

 hind legs, which are so far from the centre of circulation. This 

 disease is not unlike the jMegmassia dolens, or milk leg in the hu- 

 man family. 



Treatment. If the disease be observed early or before the leg 

 becomes hard, take about one quart of blood from the neck, and 

 give slop feed, that is, bran with plenty of water in it. Also, give 

 one ounce doses of the sulphite of soda once in the day, for a few 

 days, and bathe the legs three times in the day with the same 

 solution of concentrated lye, as is recommended in grease (which 

 see). If the swelling does not lessen in two days after these 

 various agents have been employed, then incisions of an inch in 

 length, through the skin, will have to be made for the purpose of 

 letting out the imprisoned fluid before the arteries of the legs have 

 become plugged or filled up, which constitute the thick or fat leg 

 so often seen in horses in large cities. In addition, the leg will 

 have to be bandaged pretty tightly with a broad bandage, and be 

 still bathed three times in the day with the solution of concen- 

 trated lye. Many good horses have been rendered of little value 

 from want of a knowledge of this disease and its proper treat- 

 ment. 



Gripes. — This name is sometimes applied to colic (which see). 



Grogginess. — A term meant to convey the idea that the horse 

 does not travel very steady in front, from contracted or bent legs 

 at the knee, or from soreness in the feet from a previous attack of 

 founder in the feet (which see). 



Grunter. — This name is applied to horses that give forth a 

 grunting noise. One condition giving rise to wheezing, roaring, 

 whistling, piping, and rattling, will, with slight modification, pro- 

 duce a grunter. 

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