20S WIND-GALLS. 



CHAP. XLII. 



WIND-GALLS, BLOOD, OR BOG-SPAVIN. 



The wind-gall is a small puffy tumor, that 

 yields to the pressure of the finger ; which being 

 removed, the tumor again returns. These swell- 

 ings are visible to the eye, and are seated on both 

 sides of the back sinew, a little above the fetlocks, 

 both on the fore and on the hind legs, and are ge- 

 nerally induced by hard labour. The cure must 

 be undertaken in the following manner. 



First, chp off the hair, and then rub on the part 

 the blistering ointment (No. 113, p. 151), or blister- 

 ing essence (No. 1 33, p. 1 74), every morning, for three 

 or four mornings together. In the course of a few 

 days, or as soon as the part tliat has been blistered 

 becomes dry, let the horse be turned out to grass 

 for a month or six weeks ; but, if in winter, let 

 him be kept in a strawryard for the same time. 

 This method of treatment rarely fails entirely to 

 remove the puffy tumors : but the most effectual 

 way of dispersing them, so that they shall not re- 

 turn a second time, will be, to fire the part, and 

 blister it for three or four mornings together, with 

 the blistering ointment, or essence above-mentioned. 



