GOURDINESS
—is another rustic or provincial term for SWELLED LEGS, but of a different description, implying the kind of dropsical laxity of the SOLIDS, submitting to pressure, and recovering from its indentation when the pressure is removed. This kind of swelling is a gradual approach to the disorder called GREASE, at which it will soon arrive, if not counteracted speedily, by such EVACUANTS and ALTERATIVES as may be thought most applicable to the case.