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conin — for which there is no cure. Horses so affected are 

 of little use in warm weather, but are useful in winter. 



Suppuration. — This signifies the secretion of pus, and 

 is one of the terminations of inflammation. 



Si/mj)toms» Whenever suppuration is going on to any 

 extent in or on the body of the horse, a shivering fit, 

 similar to a chill, will or may be seen, followed in a day or 

 so, either by the discharge of a yellow pus from the nose, 

 or the formation of an abscess on some portion of the body. 

 Suspect suppuration when rigors and shivering occur, 

 especially after accidents of whatever kind. 



Treatment. First. Support the strength of the horse by 

 good feeding, Avhereby the process will soon be over, and 

 without any complication with it. Second. Do not physic 

 or bleed, for those measures would prevent the process of 

 suppuration from going on in its original place, and, 

 perhaps, drive it to another. (See Metastasis.) 



Surfeit. — (See Skin Diseases.) 



Swelled Legs. — (See Grease, Sprains, Debility, and 

 Dropsy.) 



Swellings. — These are of different kinds — the hard, 

 inflammatory swelling caused by injury, suppuration, and 

 diseased bone ; the soft and fluctuating swelling, which is 

 generally circumscribed, and seen in diseases of the joints, 

 as blood spavin, etc., and contain joint oil ; the dropsical, 

 or soft and 9io?i-inflammatory swelling of many and differ- 

 ent parts of the body, at one and the same time. Each 

 must be treated according to the cause of the swelling. 

 (See Farcy.) 



Sweenie. — This word or name is so deeply buried in 

 obscurity that researches in every quarter have failed to 



