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creep, with a view of curing him ; but I could 

 not find a farrier in my neighbourhood then, 

 who would undertake the operation, and I 

 have no dexteiity of that kind myfelf. I have 

 had feveral horfes afFlifted with this malady, 

 and can affure thofe from experience, who are 

 in the predicament, thatbliftering, firing, taking 

 up veins, and fomenting, in fhort any palliative 

 method of cure for it, will rather benefit their 

 farrier than their horfe. 



In No.l. Veterinary Tranfa6lions, ProfelTor 

 Coleman fays, " therefore the opening of wind- 

 galls cannot fucceed." I muft own, the Profef- 

 for's fliort theoretical obfervations on this head, 

 are by no means fatisfattory to me ; and I wifli 

 before he had decided fo peremptorily upon a 

 matter of great moment, that he had attended 

 to the cafe recorded in Bracken, and to the ex- 

 periment I have jufl: related ; at any rate, that 

 he had not left the matter as he found it, but 

 had favoured us with fome praftical and deci- 

 five reafoning, to which we (hould have paid 

 all due refpeft. With regard to the new difco- 

 very of the identity of windgalls and mucous 

 capfules, which at prefent remains hypothe- 

 tical, its importance is nearly as great, as whe- 

 ther we adopt the old, or the new term. The 

 nature of the malady, the fecretion and pur- 

 pofes of the mucus, and the caufes of its extra- 

 vafation, have been long well known, and vete- 

 rinary 



