1266 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



Sialogogue — A medicine to promote the flow of saliva. 

 Sinus — An orifice or canal containing pus or matter. 

 Skin — The covering of the body, and the organ of touch. It is com- 

 posed of the scarf skin {cuticle), the middle {reta inucosum), and the 

 inner or true skin {derma). 

 Slink — To abort; to produce young before the natural time. 

 Slough (pronounced sluff). — To fall away, separate from, as in disease, 



or in mortified parts. 

 Socket — The depression or process in which one organ works on another. 

 Soj)oriJic — A medicine to induce sleei). 



Spasm — A sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles ; a convulsion. 

 Spafunodic—Chiivactenzod by spasms, as cramping, fits, etc. ; recurring 



at intervals, as colic pains, etc. 

 Spavin — A swelling in or near some of the joints of a horse's leg. It 

 is of two kinds. Bone spavin is a bony growth (exostosis) in the 

 region of the hock. Bog spavin, incorrectly called blood spavin, is 

 situated between the tibia and astragulus. 

 Spinal — Relating to the spine, or back-bone. 

 Splint — An excrescence in the shank-bone of a horse. Splint-bone : one 



of the bones of a horse's leg. 

 Spleen — A livid colored organ, the office of which is not yet well known. 

 Spontaneous — Occurring without any apparent cause from without. 

 Sporadic — Separated, scattered ; occurring here and there, as sporadic 



cases of disease. 

 Sterile — Barren. Not capable of producing young. 

 Sternum — The breast-bone, situated in the fore part of the thorax. 

 Stimulants — Medicines to temporarily excite the nervous or circulatory 



systems. 

 Stomachics — Agents to promote digestion. 



Strangles — An eruptive fever attended with inflammation and suppura- 

 tion of the tissue of the upper part of the throat ; called in the United 

 States, distemper. 

 Strangulated — Choked ; having the circulation stopped in any part. 

 Strangury — Stopping of a passage. 

 Stricture — Stoppage or obstruction of a passage of the body, by morbid 



or spasmodic action. 

 Stupor — A dull, sleepy, stupid condition. Loss of sensation. 

 Styptic — A powerful astringent for restrainmg or stoppmg bleeding. 

 Sudorific — That which ^vill cause perspiration or sweating 

 Suppuration — The process of forming pus or matter ; the result of in- 

 flammation in an abscess or wound. 



