520 ON DISEASES OF THE MOUTH. 



ingenuoufnefs in the cafe. Even old Gervafe 

 was not uninformed, " that the barbs are two 

 " little paps which naturally do grow under 

 every horfe's tongue whatfoever, in the nether 

 jaw, &c. Markham's Maifter Piece, p. 170. 



In the Lampas, Mr. Blaine proceeds with 

 unufual caution. During the time of dentition, 

 and even after that period, the roof of a young 

 horfe's mouth will fometimes become inflamed 

 and tumefied. This may continue, and prove 

 very painful and irritating to the animal. I 

 have, more than once, caufed the cautery to be 

 run lightly over the parts, with immediate good 

 eflPefts. Mr. Blaine, fo generally partial to the 

 aftual cautery, here recommends the knife. 



Vol. i. p. 336. — " The Arabian horfes are 

 " the fleeteftand moft durable in the world," — 

 Vol. ii. p. 96. " I have had occafion to re- 

 mark that the Englifli, though excellent riders, 

 as far as regards their feat upon a hoife, are in 

 general ftrangers, moft of them, to what may be 

 termed bridle-man'agement. They ufually con- 

 fider this appendage only as the means of flop- 

 ping or guiding a horfe, and fometimes as part 

 of the means by which they flay on him &c. 

 &:c." Thefe hacknied obfervations, originally 

 made before Mr. Blaine's grandfather exifted, 

 by continental riding mafters, and which might, 

 with equal truth, be applied to i\\&vianege itfelf, 

 as to our real jockey fyftem, are, amongft nu- 

 merous 



