THE LEGS. Zlo 



The " exception'' consists in the use of cold wafer 

 to the legs of hunters in the summer months, to 

 the extent of two, and sometimes three applications 

 of it in each day. Its cooling and restorative 

 effects were described to the author by the Earl of 

 ChesterfiekPs stud-groom, as far to exceed expecta- 

 tion ; and as the remedy is ever at hand, there is 

 no excuse for not resorting to it as an auxiliary to 

 condition. 



The foot-bucket is also an improvement upon 

 the common stable pail, for fomenting legs with 

 hot water, in cases of recent strains, blows, thorns, 

 or curbs ; for, being high and deep, a horse's leg 

 remains in it during any appointed time, as he 

 stands in his stall — if his temper is not irritable, 

 when, of course, the effect is more powerful than 

 from the common mode of fomenting, by the use of 

 cloths or flannel. In cases of incipient curbs, also, 

 an embrocation is now applied to them by first-rate 

 grooms, which almost instantly checks the disease, 

 enabling the horse to work out the season, at the 

 end of which severer measures may be taken, if 

 such be considered necessary. 



The writer is also happy to observe, that cases 

 of horses becoming roarers, without any apparent 

 cause, are by no means so frequent as they were 

 three years back. To atmospheric influences were 

 those unlooked-for cases ascribed — an argument in 

 favour of as little exposure to them, under unfavour- 

 able circumstances as can be avoided. 



