THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXII, 
No. 253. 
JANUARY 1849. 
Third Series, 
No. 13. 
LAMENESS IN HORSES. 
By William Percivall, M.R.C.S. and V.S. 
[Continued from vol xxi, p. 665.] 
WINDGALLS OF THE FETLOCK. 
ACCORDING to the vulgar acceptation of the term “ windy all ,” 
as we have before had occasion to remark, the tumours we now 
are about to describe are those indicated, although in a patho¬ 
logical point of view others of a similar nature appear quite as 
much entitled to the appellation. In speaking of “ windgalls,” it 
would therefore render our meaning more definite would we qua¬ 
lify the generic name by such additions as windgalls of, or in, or 
about the fetlock, pastern, knee, &c. 
The Windgall of the Fetlock constitutes one of the most 
ordinary forms in which we meet with the disease; and the every¬ 
day aspect of it, combined with the innocuousness of it in a general 
way, furnishes us with the reason of its being a disease concern¬ 
ing which we are less consulted than about almost any other. 
Bog-spavins and thorough-pins create occasional uneasiness in the 
minds of possessors of horses, while windgalls of the fetlocks are, 
as it were, altogether overlooked; or rather, perhaps, are regarded 
as nothing beyond what happens in “ the regular course of nature.” 
The only occasions on which windgalls seem to trouble the minds 
of horse-folk are, as w r e formerly observed, when failure in the 
fore limbs comes to be noticed, “ stiffness,” “ staleness,” or “ grog¬ 
giness,” and then windgalls, if present—which they pretty invaria¬ 
bly are—are apt to come in for a great deal more than their share 
of the causation of the recorded failure. 
Lameness rarely results from Windgalls, however; 
neither are they, under ordinary circumstances, to be regarded as 
sources even of weakness or inconvenience : in fine, common wind- 
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