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malady. To avoid the sanitary measures established in the 
German states, the dealers were obliged to make these 
horses travel great distances in the wet and snow during the 
breaking up of the frost. This variety of grease is frequent 
on the other side of the Rhine. Several veterinary practitioners, 
amongst whom I will cite MM. Hertwig, Spinola, and Fulke, 
have well described it. The form of the malady,—grease with 
cracks, — they have designated by the term schunclemaV.ke ; 
when gangrenous, hraudmailhe. As it is very important to 
establish that the malady of which I have spoken resembles 
that described by the German veterinary practitioners, I beg 
the Academy to allow me to give some textual extracts from 
their w^orks. Professor Fulke, of the University of Jena, 
assigns to this malady of the horse’s legs the following cha¬ 
racters :—It attacks by a slight fever and tumefaction of the 
intermaxillary glands ; the region of the pastern is tumefied, 
hot, and painful; in horses with white legs a redness of an 
erysepilatous character is seen; the horse frequently raises 
his feet, manifesting pain; there is also more or less lame¬ 
ness. From the third to the fourth day vesicles appear on 
the pastern and round the coronet; these vesicles contain a 
watery lymph, of ,a peculiar odour, which agglutinates the 
hairs; it often happens that these vesicles burst soon after 
their formation, and in such a manner that it appears as if the 
lymph exuded from the skin. Towards the fifteenth or 
eighteenth day the morbid secretion stops, the exudation 
ceases, and all returns to the normal state. When, however, 
the horse has been neglected, the malady becomes chronic. 
Hertwig, Professor of the Veterinary School of Berlin, gives 
the following description of grease:—At its debut there is 
slight febrile reaction; one or more of the legs become swollen 
about the fetlock; the parts are hot and painful; the swelling 
gradually extends upwards; there is lameness; the hair 
bristles; vesicles are formed, which burst soon after their 
formation, and in their place there appear red, fleshy eleva¬ 
tions, from which a yellow, viscous liquid exudes, of a parti¬ 
cular odour. After a short time, from ten to fifteen days, 
the denuded surfaces become covered with brown scabs, 
under which healthy cicatrizations are formed, or else they are 
transformed into ulcers, which secrete an offensive fluid 
mixed with blood, exhaling a bad odour. Hertwig also 
concurs as to the cracks and the partial sloughing of the 
skin, consequent on gangrene. Spinola, in his ‘ Veterinary 
Pathology,^ treats lengthily of grease; and in respect to the 
intensity of the symptoms makes the division of it benign 
and malignant. It is in the description given by this author 
