114: THE OEANGE COUNTY 



Stomach. Staggers. 



Its cause is improper feeding. The division of the hours 

 of labor, and the introduction of the nose-bag, have much dim- 

 inished the frequency of its occurrence. The remedies are 

 plain; bleeding, physicing, and the removal of the contents 

 of the stomach by means of a pump contrived for that pur- 

 pose, 



Congestions of Other Kinds 



occasionally present themselves. It is no uncommon thing 

 for the blood to loiter in the complicated vessels of the 



Liver, 



until the covering of that viscus has burst, and an accumula- 

 tion of coagulated black blood has presented itself. This 

 congestion constitutes the 



Swelled Legs 



to which so many horses are subject when they stand too 

 long idle in the stable; and it is a source of many of the ac- 

 cumulations of serous fluid in various parts of the body, and 

 particularly in the chest, the abdomen, and the brain. 



Inflammation is opposed to congestion, as consisting in an 

 active state of the capillary arterial vessels; the blood rushes 

 through them with far greater rapidity than in health, from 

 the excited state of the nervous system by which, they are 

 supplied. 



Inflammation 



is either locator diffused. It may be confined to one organ, 

 or to a particular portion of that organ; it may involve many 

 neighboring ones, or it may be spread over the whole frame. 

 In the latter case it assumes the name of 



Fever. 



Fever is general or constitutional inflammation, and it is said 

 to be 



Sympathetic, or Symptomatic 



when it can be traced to some local affection or cause, and 



