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lions on the face and elsewhere ? Grease presents to us the 
same peculiarities. This affection takes on successively the 
characters which belong to the third epochs, and thus it 
seems to constitute a different malady from what it was at 
the beginning. What is more different than the malady of 
the horse known by the name of anasarca, when we compare 
the first and third periods? What I advance is so true that, 
if by long clinical habit we have not been taught to follow all 
the variations of the symptoms from the beginning to the end 
of a disease, we find ourselves liable to be deceived in respect 
to the nature of the malady. At the cUbutj grease is ushered 
in with swelling of the legs, particularly about the bend of 
the fetlock ; this swelling rapidly extends upwards to the 
knee or hock; it is preceded by and accompanied with 
febrile symptoms; the swollen parts are hot and painful, and 
become in a short time the seat of an exudation of a serous 
nature, which renders the hair humid; this serous discharge 
is sometimes so abundant that it runs out in small drops 
down the hoofs; the skin becomes covered with vesicles of 
variable size, containing clear, yellowish fluid, by which they 
are distended, they exhale a strong, penetrating odour, and 
are succeeded by places denuded of hair, which are more 
or less deep seated, and from which exudes a more abundant 
and thicker secretion than from the vesicles situated here 
and there ;* in the bend of the fetlock there are pustules, 
sometimes large in size, formed by a soft and easily compres¬ 
sible tissue; these secrete in succession a liquid, at first 
serous and of a yellowish hue, afterwards it becomes grayish 
and more consistent; the interval spaces which separate 
these pustules are filled with coagulated matter, resembling 
gelatine; the hair is bristling and matted together, in some 
places in the shape of small fascias. In the course of this 
period it is not rare to see the appearance of cracks and 
exfoliation of the skin, partially gangrenous. But an import¬ 
ant phenomenon to notice, and which proves that the patho¬ 
logical alterations in question are in the local expression of a 
general morbid state, is that the febrile symptoms diminish 
or disappear as soon ♦ as the malady localizes itself in the 
lower part of the legs. It is principally among young horses 
that acute grease prevails. I have observed it particularly in 
those in which the development of strangles has been arrested. 
In 1840 several horses imported into France by the east 
frontier, for the remount of the cavalry, were attacked by this 
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* According to M. Ileynault, M. Lafosse would have been right in quali¬ 
fying the malady of Rienues as grease if, as he asserts, grease is a pustu¬ 
lous malady.—U. L. 
