On the use of a substance called the false tongue in foals

The substance called thefalse tongue, which is thrown out from the mouth of the foal, either at the period of birth, or shortly before it, and to which various whimsical uses and virtues have been assigned, is conceived by the author to be requisite in this animal or the action of sticking, in consequence of its not respiring through the mouth, but altogether through the nasal passages: an instinctive feeling prompting it to supply the loss of that substance by sucking the teat of the mother. Dr. Prout, who analysed a portion of this substance at the request of the author, finds it to be composed principally of coagulated albumen slightly modified. The author regards it as a secretion from the tongue of the foal. slightly modified. The author regards it as a secretion from the tongue of the foal.