306 WINDGALL IN FRONT OF THE FETLOCK. 



The disease is so rare that there are veterinarians, probably, 

 who may have never seen it. When present, it discovers itself in 

 the form of one or two small round tumours in front of the knee, 

 which from their elasticity and fluctuation evidently contain fluid, 

 and which may, while the foot is ofl" the ground and the knee-joint 

 relaxed, be in general, by pressure, emptied of their contents. They 

 are productive neither of lameness nor inconvenience, and are 

 thought nothing of, save they should happen to oflend as eye-sores. 

 Strong stimulating applications or blisters might, were it desired, 

 reduce their magnitude ; though in general, when they do exist, as 

 soon as their innocuous nature comes to be explained, but little 

 heed is taken of them. 



We remember seeing, a great many years ago, a very fine 

 three-parts bred covering stallion, called Alfred, the property of 

 Major Talbot, of Stone Castle, near Dartford, who had a tumour 

 of this description directly in front of one of his knees. It was 

 about the size of a walnut, and appeared as though it were double, 

 or consisted of one tumour over the other. Not the slightest incon- 

 venience in any way resulted from its presence. 



A DIFFERENT KiND OF WiNDGALL OF THE KnEE is that 

 which on occasions presents itself above as well as in front of the 

 joint, taking the direction of Ihe tendon of the extensor metacarpi, 

 of the bursa of which it is an enlargement. Tn the case which I 

 find I have registered of this description, it appeared to have had 



its origin in " pawing in the stall," a habit to which Lord C e's 



mare — the subject of it — was much addicted; and it was pretty 

 well ascertained that, in so doing, she was continually striking her 

 knee against the manger. This is a different case from that of 

 distended theca. 



I have likewise seen wind galls upon the tendons of the flexors at 

 the back of the arm, immediately above the knee. 



WiNDGALL IN FRONT OF THE FeTLOCK. 



There are two localities or forms in which windgall shews itself 

 in this region, according as its seat is the superficial or the deep 

 bursa mucosa. In all cases in which the fetlock joints are what 



