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warm wax will not stick to it. If the opening be in the 

 sole, shoe with leather soles, tar and cotton, until the hole 

 has grown out or closed up. 



Grease. — This is a disease of the heels and legs of 

 horses, characterized by an unsightly condition of the parts. 

 The whole being the result of suppurative inflammatory 

 action of the skin and heels of the hind legs, usually, but 

 sometimes of the fore ones ; is more common in coarse-bred 

 western horses, and heavy breeds, than in well or fine 

 bred horses. 



Cause. Sudden changes of the temperature of the earth, 

 whether from heat to cold, or from wet to dry. This dis- 

 ease always follows sloppy or wet streets, stables or lands, 

 producing a relaxed condition of the parts from too much 

 moisture. 



Treatment. Keep the legs clean and dry, and apply a 

 mixture to the heeL twice in the twenty-four hours. Water, 

 one pint ; sulphuric acid, two drachms ; corrosive chloride 

 of mercury, one drachm. Mix, and shake up before ising. 

 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 

 there is uncertainty 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. Foi 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-glassful of the solution of lye, into a small 

 bucket of cold water, and wash and bathe the heels and 

 legs for half an hour, morning and night. A great change 



