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CHAP. XIV. 



ON THE DISEASES OF THE LEGS AND FEET, 

 AND OF LAMENESS FROM RELAXED OR 

 CONTRACTED LIGAMENTS. 



THE GREASE. 



A T the head of St. Bel's EfTay on the Greafe, 

 ■^^^ we find the following quotation from 

 Montas^ne : " I wifh that every one would 

 " write only what he knows, and as much as 

 " he knows :" in this cafe I fear our profeffor 

 has gone farther than Montagne's wifh, by 

 WTiting fomewhat more than he knew ; how- 

 ever in the Prize Elfay of a juvenile pra61:itioner, 

 a little flourifli is pardonable ; and the Effay 

 contains fome excellent remedies, and in gene- 

 ral, a very rational method of cure. 



The greafe in horfes is an extravafation, or 

 burftin^ from the veifels, and afterwards throudi 

 the fl^in, o^ ferum, or fimple humour, in the 

 legs and heels, from the want either of exercife, 

 or the recumbent pofture, to promote the cir- 

 culation of the fluids in thofe depending parts, 

 " as (according to our veterinarians, whofe 



*' opinion 



