LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
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But give them, however, a day or two’s repose, and all comes 
right again. 
WlNDGALLS OCCUR IN THE HIND Fetlocks a great deal more 
frequently than in the fore, and likewise, in general, run to greater 
size in the former, and are more inclined to be troublesome, and so 
to call, whenever they do call, for remedial measures. They are 
likewise oftener seen in clean-limbed horses, and such as shew 
breeding, than in those of an opposite character. In all this we 
trace the consequences of exertion. We know how much more the 
hind limbs have to do in progression than the fore ones; and we 
also know how much quicker and suddener, and more trying and 
straining, are the movements of blood horses—of racers and hunters 
and well-bred harness horses—than those of half or coarse bred 
and cart horses. 
The seat of the Fetlock Windgall is so well known that 
any description of it might appear not supererogatory merely, but 
ridiculous. And yet it may not have occurred to the superficial 
observer that the nature of windgall, which to him appears like one 
general or uniform swelling, is in reality double. Sometimes, it is 
true, there is but one place in which anv tumour is found, and 
that is immediately above and behind the fetlock-joint, either on 
one side or, as is usual, on both. The double tumefaction is pro¬ 
duced by the presence of a bursal tumour higher and still more 
backward, and commonly of less volume, than the former. And 
this, as well as the lower one, is apt to be more prominent upon 
the outer side of the leg than upon the inner; so much indeed, in 
some cases, that it actually curls round the back of the leg. The 
tumours have the ordinary puffy feel, and look, in shape at least, 
like pigeons’ or birds’ eggs inserted underneath the skin. Dissec¬ 
tion unfolds to us that the superior windgall is lodged in the inter¬ 
val between the perforatus and perforans tendons, about two inches 
above the sesamoid bones: indeed, the sac of the windgall, from 
surrounding attachments to its borders, appears as though it 
gave passage to the perforans tendon through its cavity ; though 
this appearance, in point of fact, is owing to the membrane of the 
bursa being reflected upon the surface of the tendon. The inferior 
and anterior windgall is situated half an inch lower down. It is 
seated in front of the perforans tendon, between it and the sus¬ 
pensory ligament, occupying the interval there existing between 
the bifurcations of the ligament just named. The connexion of 
these windgalls with the flexor tendons and suspensory ligaments 
of the limbs accounts for the opposite conditions in which they are 
found, tense or flaccid, according as the sine ws are braced or un¬ 
braced. While the foot remains upon the ground and the muscles 
continue in action, the windgalls are full and firm to the feel ; the 
