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sons, induce it to be employed. In the first place, clip off the hair—if 
any remains to be cut off. The natural protector of the heels now can 
conserve nothing. It can only heat the skin and retain the discharge. 
This being accomplished, if the leg merely be hot and scurfy, have it 
thoroughly cleansed with curd soap and warm water. Then a cloth, 
saturated with the lotion for the earliest stage of grease, should be 
laid upon the inflamed integument. This should be removed so soon 
as it becomes warm, and another, also dripping, should immediately 
supply its place. Thus a wet, cold cloth should constantly cover the 
part till the heat is destroyed, or at all events is greatly mitigated. 
For this purpose, two men are required, one to remove and the other 
to apply. Four old cloths will be necessary. These, when removed, 
should be flung over a line, so that as large a space as possible may be 
exposed to the cooling action of the atmosphere. There is nothing so 
disagreeable in performing this office as might at first appear. The 
active agent of the lotion is a powerful disinfectant and deodorizer. 
The first cloth removes almost all the fetor, and hanging the wrappers 
subsequently over the line effectually purifies the atmosphere. The 
part being reduced to a comparatively natural temperature, the after- 
treatment consists in renewing the cloths so often as the heat returns; 
and in otherwise moistening the limb with some of the subjoined lotion 
thrice daily :— 
Lotion for the earliest stage of Grease. 
Animal glycerin . . . . . 1...) . «OHalfa pint. 
Chloride of zine . . . . . .... . . . Halfan ounce. 
Water... . . . . Six quarts. 
To be employ ed aes thie: manner acne directed. 
When the cracks, with ulceration, appear, the previous lotion is too 
weak to be of much service; but the same treatment must be adopted: 
only one of the lotions subsequently given should then be used :— 
Lotion for the ulcerative stage of Grease. 
Permanganate of potash or phosphoric acid . . . . . One pint. 
Waters 4, 4) ao ce: ei en Sp Bre Sr od Se ke A a Sie quarts: 
Or— 
Chloride of zine . . . . . . ee ew ee.) «One ounce. 
Creosote .. . ly ue aes a eos «, +o Hourountces: 
Strong solution of Gal bake See oS One gallon. 
Both to be used after the manner of the previous seinen. 
Should the spurious granulations have begun to sprout, lose no time 
in having the horse cast. Have near at hand a small pot, with a char- 
coal fire beneath it. Let the vessel be full of boiling water. Within 
the fluid, previous to the casting, insert several irons; then throw the 
