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other injury, it can scarcely be considered unsound- 

 ness, because it will not produce lameness : it ij 

 more prudent, however, to infer that it is an indi- 

 cation of disease or latent injury of the joint, and 

 consequently to reject the horse. As a genera 

 rule, it is more hazardous to buy where these 

 equivocal symptoms appear, than when there an 

 more decided marks of disease ; because the re- 

 medy on the warranty becomes far more doubtful. 

 Grease is a discharge of matter from the heel 

 most usually found in the hind feet, but not unfre 

 quently before. It is attended with swelling anc 

 excoriation of the skin, and when it has arrived a 

 any considerable extent, ulcers are formed, ven 

 difficult indeed in their cure. A purchaser, how 

 ever, is not likely to meet with a horse exhibiting 

 such decided symptoms : it is only in the incipien 

 stage of the disease that he is likely to be taker 

 in. To ascertain whether there is any menace o 

 the complaint, he should notice in the first instance 

 whether there is generally an enlarged and full 

 appearance of the legs — not confined to the bacfe 

 sinews, or the joints, but extending over the lowei 

 part of the entire limb. This appearance is called 

 technically a swelled leg, and is the usual proximate 

 cause of grease. Should there be any indication 

 of the kind, he should next examine the colour o1 



