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it must be changed. A course of lime water lias 

 sometimes effected a cure in very desperate cases; 

 but a liorse must be starved into a voluntary drinking 

 of it. 



GREASE. 



This disease may be much more easily cured than 

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

 riers, by treating all cases alike, foil in three out "of 

 five. Grease is always the effect of some deviation 

 from a natural state ; that is, horses in a state of 

 nature never have grease : therefore the owner of a 

 horse having grease would always do well, first to 

 consider in what principally the treatment of his horse 

 differs from the natural habit of tlie animal. It 

 is more than probable that this ])articular is the cause 

 of the disease, the removal of which alone would tend 

 greatly to the cure. 



Thus, when a horse exercises very severely two or 

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

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

 fluids will stagnate in the heels, where they have to 

 rise in a direction per})endicular and contrary to their 

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

 gets, perhaps, only two or three niiles of exercise 

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

 this horse not being proportionate, the superfluous 

 blood made must have an exit somewhere : cracks 

 in the heels are thus formed, and ichor or serum 

 flows out, and the blood vessels unburthen themselves 

 in this way. To a horse rode through snow, with 

 his legs and heels benumbed, and then put into a 

 warm stable without his legs being rubbed, the pre- 



