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sive chloride of mercury, one drachm. Mix, and shake up 

 before using. Many cases are readily cured, by simply 

 keeping the heels clean, and anointing with glycerine, 

 or lard, having no salt in it. It must be confessed by 

 every body, who has had any experience at all in the 

 treatment of this disease, — that it is very uncertain of 

 an early cure ; some cases will be cured in a short 

 time, and in others it would seem that the discharge would 

 never dry up and be healed. For cases that prove 

 obstinate, the following plan will effect a cure, when 

 other vaunted remedies have failed : Take one box of 

 concentrated lye, and dissolve it' in two quarts of water, 

 and bottle up for use when wanted, in the following 

 way : Pour a wine-glass full of the solution of lye, into 

 a small half bucket of cold water, and wash and bathe 

 the heels and legs for half an hour, morning and night. 

 A great change for the better will be seen in a day or 

 two. This wash seems to have the power of relaxing 

 and softening the skin, and at the same time causes the 

 legs to sweat greatly. Dry them as often after the 

 bathing as you like, there will pour out great quantities 

 of moisture from the skin as soon as you have done. 



(2.) Grease Shot of.— This is a different disease from 

 the one bescribed, from the fact that it attacks only one 

 leg, and that one of the hind ones, and comes on in a 

 night, without any preceeding symptoms whatever, and 

 hence it is called a shot of grease. There is no cracking 

 of the skin of the heels or legs, but it remains whole and 

 unbroken. 



Cause.— Rohust stamina, or too fat and full of flesh, 



and to get rid of this superfluity, plastic lymph is thrown 



into one of the hind legs, which causes swelling of the leg 



to an enormous size. If this material were thrown from 



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