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WIND, THICK. 



The foregoing treatment applies equally to thick 

 wind, only here the addition of a bliller to the 

 throat is fometimes of confiderable fervice. The 



Mild Liquid Blister [page 24^] rubbed into 

 the throat, half way down the neck, every morning 

 and evening, for three or four days, will anfwer the 

 end. Here, likewife, there is greater relief to be 

 hoped from a courfe of the 



Cough Balls [page 21] continued fome time. 



WINDGALLS. 



Motion requires, in mofl inftances, a fluid to take 

 off the effeds of fridion : the fridlion of the bones is 

 prevented by the joint oil, and that of the tendons, 

 by little bags containing a very llippery mucous. 

 Now, as motion increafes, fo this mucous increafes ; 

 and hence, in very hard-worked horfes, thefe bags 

 become very much enlarged in the neighbourhood 

 of confiderable tendons. It is thefe preternaturally 

 enlarged mucous capfules that form what are termed 

 imndgalky but which do not lame, unlefs they be- 

 come fo large as to prefs on any of the parts, and 

 impede their functions; but. they always fliew the 

 effed of confiderable exertion, and hence evince the 

 liability to future lamenefs. It has been recom- 

 mended to open them, and in the hands of a fkilful 

 operator it might perhaps be attended with fome 



