542 ON THE LEGS. 



rinary fcience flood rather in need of a good 

 method of cure, than a new name. I acknow- 

 ledge, and indeed my reader mull have per- 

 ceived, that I have confiderable apprehenfion, 

 from the various new nomenclatures, at pre- 

 lent afloat on the ocean of fcience. 



Mr. Coleman obferves, " it has not been ge- 

 nerally underflood, that the fame bags exift in 

 all horfes when firft foaled." It may be replied, 

 that no fmatterer in phyfiology could be unac- 

 quainted of the exiftence of mucous glands, al- 

 though fuch an one might probably be unin- 

 formed, for a time, that the glands had changed 

 their names to purfes or capfules. As to the 

 exiftence of bags on the joints of horfes previ- 

 oufly to labour and domeftication, neither men 

 acquainted or " unacquainted with the fubjeft," 

 could poflibly be apprized of them, for the befl 

 of all poflible reafons — their non-exilfence ; la- 

 bour and draining are neceflarv to convert thefe 

 mucous glands into tumid and palpable bags, 

 granting the identity of the hurfcz and the 

 windgalls. which is yet far from proven. The 

 eliminated mucus may have formed to itfelf a 

 bag. See Bell's Anatomy on the burfcc niucufce, 

 Laflly, (for m,y habits have led me to a much 

 greater familiarity with the living, than the dead 

 horfe) is every windgall fituated precifely upon 

 a mucous capfule ? Mr. Coleman fpeaks of 

 " erroneous and fatal pra61ice," from what he 



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