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ation of the cornea appears ; thus the prospects of recovery 

 are decreased, while the danger of a pus-like exudate ap- 

 pearing in the agueous humor or the perforation of the cornea 

 increases. Not infrequently do these bad results appear in 

 cow-pox, sheep-pox or infectious conjunctivitis and kerititis 

 among cattle and sheep. 



Treatment. — Examine the eye critically, being especially 

 careful to discover and remove any irritating foreign body or 

 particles. Bathing the eye in very warm water twice per day 

 and then adjusting over it a clean cloth, saturated with a 1 per 

 cent, solution of carbolic acid, will, in most cases, be suffi- 

 cient. But, should there be an abscess or an ulcer present, 

 the cloth might be saturated with a solution of corrosive 

 sublimate 1 part and water 1000 parts ; and during the re- 

 parative stages warm water baths night and morning, and 

 the application of the following salve, will aid in the removal 

 of the opacity: Calomel, 80 grains; iodoform, 30 grains; 

 vaseline, 5 drachms. Instead of this salve one may apply 

 with a feather a small quantity of equal parts of pulverized 

 calomel and iodoform, 



INFECTIOUS CONJUNCTIVITIS AND KERATITIS, OR INFECTIOUS 

 INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA AND CORNEA. 



This eye disease is most frequently found in cattle, but 

 may appear in sheep, horses and goats. It is said to occur 

 only during the summer months, but the writer saw it in a 

 herd of cattle in February and March in south-eastern 

 Iowa, That winter was exceptionally warm. It attacked 

 cattle of all ages ; but calves and the young cattle seemed to 

 be predisposed to it. A number of young colts, running in 

 the same field with the cattle, were similarly affected. Sev- 

 eral outbreaks of this eye disease have bean reported to me 

 as occurring during the spring and summer months of 1892, 

 in Alabama. 



The disease announces its presence by an increased flow 



