392 PREVENTIVES — REMEDIES. [BOOK II. 



various places, and ulceration ensues. The hair 

 sticks out like furze, the discharge is now darker 

 than originally, is thin, acrid, corroding and stink- 

 ing. 



Remedy. — The grease is one of those disorders 

 about which we should employ our ingenuity in 

 prevention rather than the cure ; and this, indeed, 

 is the case with nearly all the diseases that depend 

 upon constitutional defectiveness, or rather inability 

 of some of the organs of life to perform aright the 

 functions of nature. How these ou^ht to act we 

 have spoken at length in the second chapter of 

 book the first ; and pointed out the free circulation 

 of the blood as the principal cause of health, as 

 would also the want of a good circulation prove 

 the harbinger of disease. Now this affection called 

 grease, being produced entirely by such inactivity, 

 it seems clear that exercise would be the best pre- 

 ventive of it ; and the horse-keeper should also 

 keep the heels dry after work is over, and hand- 

 rub him a little with as much industry as he can 

 afford, according to his wages. He should also let 

 the hair remain on the heels of his heavy horses, 

 and give to the large ones sufficient depth of stall 

 and bed, so as to prevent such from throwing their 

 long legs half way out in the stable (as often hap- 

 pens) upon the cold stones, of winter nights. 



In slight attacks, a Wash made of a solution of 

 alum, as under, will correct the disjjosition to grease, 

 and a dose of physic set all to rights in a shon 

 time : both, however, regulated according to cir- 



