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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 s(«ae 

 portion of the body. Suspect suppuration when rigors and shiver- 

 ing occur, especially after accidents of whatever kind. 



Treatment. First. Support the strength of the horse by good 

 feeding, whereby the process will soon be over, and without any 

 complication with it. Second. Do not physic or bleed, for thoso 

 measures would prevent the process of suppuration from going on 

 in its original place, and, perhaps, drive it to another, (See Met- 

 astasis.) 



Surfeit. — (See Skin Diseases.') 



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



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

 matory 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 con- 

 tain joint oil ; the dropsical, or soft and non-inflammatory swell- 

 ing of many and different parts of the body, at one and the same 

 time. Each must be treated according to the cause of the swell- 

 ing. (See Farcy.) 



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

 that researches in every quarter have failed to discover its origin, 

 or secure to it a satisfactory resurrection. It applies, however, 

 when used by horsemen, to a falling away or shrinkage of the 

 muscles of the shoulder and indicates not so much a lameness in 

 the shoulder as it does a disease elsewhere — in the foot or leg, as 

 corns and diseases of the pastern joint. Atrophy should be sub- 

 stituted for sweenie, as it is generally sympathetic, and, moreover, 

 means that the body or a part is diminishing in bulk. 



Treatment. Remove the cause of atrophy or sweenie, and the 

 effects will pass away. 



Sympathy. — That condition which is developed in one part of 

 the system or body of an animal, although not of itself a diseasCj 

 but is the result 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. Heitein lies the great 



