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the flesh, round the fetlocks : when it appears at a good 

 distance from the large nerve, it does not lame the 

 horse ; and if he has but age on his side, that is, be 

 under ten years old, at most, he will be as useful as be- 

 fore, provided the work you put him to, be not of the 

 most laborious kind ; however, a horse is much better 

 without, than with even this sort of simple windgall, 

 which consists of thin skins, full of red liquid, and soft 

 to the touch. The nervous windgall answers the same 

 description, only, as the simple ones come upon the fet- 

 lock, or a little above it, upon the leg bone, in the very 

 place of osslets, nervous ones come behind the fetlock, 

 upon the great nerve, which makes them of worse con- 

 sequence, for they never fail to lame a horse after much 

 fatigue. These windgalls may happen upon any of the 

 legs, but some of them are more dangerous than others, 

 m proportion as they press the nerve, and are capable 

 of laming the horse ; and take notice by the way, that 

 windgalls are more troublesome in summer than in 

 winter, especially in very hot weather, when the pores 

 are all open. The third sort is the bloated windgall, 

 and is of the worst sort when they come over the hind 

 part of the fetlock, between the bone and the large 

 nerve, and make the horse so lame at every little thing he 

 does, that he can scarce set his foot on the ground : they 

 appear on both sides the leg, without as well as within ; 

 and when you touch them with your hand or finger, 

 they feel like a pig's or cow's bladder full of wind. If 

 under his knees there are scabs on the inside, it is the 

 speedy or swift cut, and in that case he will but ill en- 

 dure galloping; if above the pasterns, on the inside, 

 you find scabs, it shows interfering ; but if the scabs be 

 generally over his legs, it is either occasioned by foul 

 keeping, or a spice of the mange. 



It is seldom that a horse is found entirely clear of 

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