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found sufficient to effect a cure ; but when 

 tJie disease is of long standing, and particularly 

 if the horse have suffered trom it before, there 

 will be more difficulty in its removal. In such 

 cases the following alterative powder may be 

 given in the corn every day, until it produces a 

 considerable diuretic effect: in very obstinate 

 cases rowels in the thigh have been found 

 useful. Digitahs, or fox- glove, has been re- 

 commended in those swellino^s of the leos 

 which are the con^iequence of grease: I have 

 not yet tried its effect in this way, at least nofc 

 sufficientiy to give an opinion on the subject. 

 It is a violent medicine in the horse, very apt 

 to ta];e off the appetite and injure the stomach, 

 aud must therefore be given with caution : the 

 dose is from hair a dram to one dram. 



Though the grease is most commonly occa- 

 sioned either by high feeding and want of 

 exercise, or by neglect in the groom, there arc 

 cases which seem to depend on general debi- 

 lity. I do not believe that this is ever the ex- 

 citing cause of the disease, but am convinced 

 that a horse is rendered more susceptible of 

 it by being in a state of weakness, and that 

 the complaint sometimes owes its continuance 

 to this cause. When a horse has suffered much 



