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by good feeding, wliereby the process will soon be over, 

 and without any complication with it. Second. Do not 

 physick 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 Metas- 

 tasis.) 



Surfeit — (See Skin Diseases.) 



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

 Dropsy.) 



Swellings. — Are of different kinds — the hard, inflam- 

 matory swelling caused by injury, suppuration, and dis- 

 eased bone — the soft and fluctuating swelling, which is 

 generally circumscribed, and seen in disease of the joints, 

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

 or soft and ?io^-inflammatory swelling of many and dif- 

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

 must be treated according to the cause of the swelling. — 

 (See Farcy.) 



Sympathy. — Is that condition which is developed in one 

 part of the system or body of an animal, although not of 

 itself a disease, but is on account of disease or accident 

 happening to some other, or remote portion of the body. 

 This sympathy is communicated through and by the 

 nervous system. A nail in the foot, or a broken bone, is 

 immediately followed by sympathetic fever, and general 

 disturbance of the whole system. Herein lays the great 

 diff*erence between the animal and vegetable life. A 

 branch of a bush or a tree can be lopped off" without any 

 disturbance to the life or health of the main trunk. No 

 such immunity exists in the animal creation. 



Synovia. — A clear, colorless and viscid fluid, secreted 

 by the lining membrane of the joints, for the purpose of 



