166 DISEASES OP THE HOESB. 



Numbuess. — Loss of feeling in any part, usually 

 indicating disease of the brain, resulting in paralysis or 

 palsy. 



Obesity. — This is a term applied to morbid or un- 

 healthy fatness. When this condition is in the mesentery, 

 it pr©duces big belly; in the liver, fatty liver; in the heart, 

 fatty degeneration of that organ. 



Causes. Little or no work, or exercise disproportionate 

 between the amount of food taken and the waste. 



Treatment. Constant and regular work ; feed, in small 

 bulk, oats instead of corn, and not much hay. To animals 

 inclining to take on too much fat and flesh, give a dose of 

 physic (see Aloes, Medicines and Prescriptions,) occasion- 

 ally, but do not bleed. 



(Edema. — A term signifying soft but not inflammatory 

 swellings of various parts of the body, as a sequel to 

 debilitating diseases. These swellings contain serum 

 thrown out ^om the blood. The treatment of this afiec- 

 tion will be the removal of the exciting cause. (See 

 Dropsy.) 



(Estromania. — This name is, by some, called oestening, 

 which name is applied to mares and cows when desiring 

 the male. 



OmentuiE.. — A fold of the peritoneum, which hangs 

 down from tlie stomach, and is reflected on itself upwards 

 and backward^, to the colon. It is in this where the great 

 deposition of fat takes place. The omentum is often 

 implicated ia inipture. 



Open Joints. — (See Broken Knees.) 



Ophthalmia. — (See Eye Diseases.) 



Ossification.— The formation of bone; but in the 



