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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 444, 8 February 1890, Page 6

Gkeasy Heels in Horses. Although ! clipping the long hair from the legs, combined with washing and leaving them .vet, is justly regarded as an important factor in the production of grease, it is. essential to do it on the occasion of an attack, in order to permit of free contact of the remedies to be applied. Clip the hair closely from the greasy heel: and put it in a poultice made by boiling carrots or turnips until tender, and then mashing them to a pulp. Continue the poulticing until the limb is clean, and all dried discharges softened. Twelve to 24 hours will , suffice for this. Afterward the following lotion may be applied : Sulphate of zinc, £oz. ; sugar of lead, ] soz. ; water, \\ pints. Wet a baudage with the lotion : wrap it lightly round the leg; and renew the lotion as often as it becomes dry. A solution of alum made by dissolving loz of powdered alum in a pint of water may be tried as an alternative. The animal must be kept as much as possible out of mud and dirt. When the raw places have ceased to discharge, and appear to have a tendency to heal, the lotion may be discontinued, and the limb freely smeared nth either calamine or oxide of zinc ointment. Constitutional treatment is eminently useful in grease: and medicine of an alterative and diuretic character should be given. For this purpose give: Nitrate _of potash and powdered resin, of each 3oz; sublimed sulphur, 4Aoz; black antimony anetpowder foenugrec.'Hoz. Mix and divide into twelve powders, giving one ev ® r y night. In confirmed cases of grease small doses.of arsenic are very useful. But other remedies should be tried. ■