246 GREASE. 
Should, even at this period, no proper remedy be applied to check 
the disease, the leg enlarges. Proud flesh, or fungoid granulations, 
sprout from the lines of ulceration. The granulations grow in bunches, 
aud have a ragged surface. Often the masses are 
of great size, and shake, as though about to fall, 
with every movement of the foot. The points, 
from exposure, become dry and hard; their na- 
ture, from that of fungoid granulations, changes 
to a substance resembling horn, like which, they 
are without sensation. These bunches have been 
named ‘“ grapes,” which they are vulgarly thought 
to resemble. The likeness, however, is very dis- 
tant—the one being pleasant to look upon, the 
other forming a painful and disgusting spectacle. 
THE THIRD STAGE OF CON- 
FIRMED GREASE. HORNY However insensitive the points of the bunches 
BUNCHES WAICH ARE COM- . . . 
MONLY CALLED GRAPES. may become, the limb itself, throughout the disor- 
der, possesses a morbid sensibility. The gentlest 
touch occasions exquisite torture, and the animal will tremble lest the 
agony should be repeated. Upon the slightest impression, the leg is 
instantly snatched up, nor is it trusted again upon the earth until fatigue 
necessitates rest or till the cause of suffering has departed. Horses 
have even suppressed their urine, lest the fluid, splashing upon the seat 
of disease, should provoke any access of the infliction. Few greasy 
animals ever have a bed under them, the straw of which might arrest 
the liquid in its flight. Indeed, such a luxury might save them from one 
source of torture, but assuredly would start up another. The ends of 
the straw, pricking or even touching the disorder, would cause such 
agony as must occasion the animal constantly to stand in terror. 
One peculiarity, witnessed during grease, has not been indicated in 
the above illustrations. It has been purposely omitted, because, though 
invariably attendant upon the disorder, it in reality forms no part of the 
malady, being only a sympathetic effect. The cutis is continuous with 
the coronet and lamina, which secrete the outward horn of the hoof. 
Any disease fixing upon the one, of course cannot but affect the other. 
The irritation which involves the skin of the leg, therefore, necessarily 
stimulates the growth of the foot. The hoof of a greasy leg, from this 
cause, often becomes of enormous dimensions; but this peculiarity has 
not been noticed, because it was desired to keep the attention of the 
reader fixed wholly upon the more immediate symptoms of the loathsome 
affection. 
The remedy for grease is simple enough. Indeed, did not a sense of 
duty oblige it to be resorted to, the smell would, in the majority of per- 
