126-'^ CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



Pus — The matter discharged from a tumor when hmced, or from sores. 



Healthy pus is yellowish white in color, and is always secreted in the 



process of healing. 

 Pulref action — The process of decomposition ; state of corruption ; 



rottenness. 

 Pylorus — The lower orifice of the stomach on its right side, through 



which the food passes to the intestines. 

 Quack — A pretender in medicine. A charlatan. 

 Qualmisii — Sick at the stomach ; suifering from nausea. 

 Quiescent^-At rest. Showing no pain. Making no sounc* 

 Quitlor — An ulcerous formation, rescml),ing fistula, inside a horse's foot. 

 Rabies — Madness ; hydrophobia. 

 Rachitis — Inflammation of the spine ; rickets. The latter word is i)rob- 



ably a corruption of rachitis. 

 Ramify — Branched ; running in various directions. 



Rancid — Having a rank, strong smell ; in a state of incipient putrefac- 

 tion. 

 Raphe — A seam or suture. 

 Rash — An eruption of the skin. 



Receptacle — That which receives or contains something else. 

 Rectum — The last intestine. The anal gut. 

 Reflux — In medicine, the return of the blood from the head, or f::D.- 



towards the extremities to the heart. 

 Refrigerants — Medicines or lotions to diminish heat. 

 Regurgitate — To throw or pour back ; to swallow again. 

 Relax — To abate ; to become more mild, or less rigorous. 

 Remittent — Ceasing for a time, as a fever or a pain. 

 Reproduction — The act or process of reproducing the young ; breeding. 

 Resolvent — A substance or medicine that will scatter inflammatory or 



other tumors, and prevent their suppuration. 

 Respiration — The act of breathing. 

 Respiratory murmur — The nmrmur which, when the ear or stethoscope 



is applied to the chest, is heard in the lungs, and attending the act of 



breathing. 

 Retention — A stopping or withholding, as retention of the urine. 

 Retina — The expansion of the optic nerve in the back part of the eye, 



on which the image is produced, in the act of seeing, or vision. 

 Repulsion — In physics, that power by which particles or bodies are made 



to recede from each other. 

 Reunion — The union of parts separated by a wound or accident. 

 Rickets — A certain diseased state of the bones in children. 

 itigidity — Stiffness ; inflexibility. 



