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GREASE. 



This difeafe may be much more eafily cured than 

 perfons in general find it; for the generality of far- 

 riers, by treating all cafes alike, fail in three out of 

 five. Greafe is always the effe6l of fome deviation 

 from a natural flate; that is, horfes in a ftate of 

 nature never have greafe: therefore the owner of a 

 horfe having greafe would always do well, firfl, to 

 confider in what principally the treatment of his horfe 

 dififers from the natural habit of the animal; and it 

 is more than probable that this particular is the caufe 

 of the difeafe, the removal of which alone would tend 

 greatly to the cure. 



Thus, when a horfe exereifes very feverely two or 

 three following days in the week, and then refts en- 

 tirely the remainder, it follows, of courfe, that the 

 fluids will llagnate in the heels, where they have to 

 rife in a direction perpendicular and contrary to their 

 own gravity. To a horfe very full fed, and who 

 gets, perhaps, only two or three miles of excrcife 

 every day, it is evident that, the feeding and work of 

 this horfe not being proportionate, the fuperfluous 

 blood made, muft have an exit fomewhere : cracks 

 in the heels are thus formed, and ichor or ferum 

 flows out, and the blood vefTels unburthcn thcmfclves 

 in this wav. To a horfe rode throuah the fnow, with 

 his legs and heels benumbed, and then put into a 

 warm liable without his legs being rubbed, the pre- 



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