532 ON GREASE. * 



able, unlefs perhaps they could be eradicated 

 either by knife or cauftic, and the cure conduc- 

 ed with the horfe living abroad. 



Horjes living upon grains, and other wafhy 

 and unfubftantial food, are very liable to 

 greafe; the foolifh cuftom of clipping, or 

 pulling the heels intirely naked to the (kin, in 

 cold wintry weaiher, as we often fee poor 

 poft-hori'fs ferved, alfo fubjects them to chil- 

 blains and chaps, which foon become greafy. 

 It may endanger a relapfe, to futftr horfes reco- 

 vering from the diforder to go abroad with the 

 cracks expofed to the air; a Burgundy pitch 

 plailler is ufeful. 



The Canker iW the Foot, ufually arifes 

 from greafe and ulcerated thrufhes. It is of a 

 cancerous nature, and will in a very fliort 

 time rot the fole, and deftroy the mufcles of 

 the bottom of the foot, which however will be 

 reproduced after a cure. Ifneglefted only a 

 few days, it will grow feveral inches high, into 

 a kind of cauhflower head, but of a pale red 

 colour. Cut away the hoof wherever it prefs 

 upon the tender parts, and foften with neat's- 

 foot or linfeed oil, and every time of drelhng 

 bathe all about the coronet with chamber-lye, 

 in which iron has been quenched. Drefs at 

 firft once a day with aquafortis, oil of vitriol, 

 or butter of antimony ; or the nitrous acid, half 

 an ounce, with corrofive fublimate two drachms. 



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