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or of a yoke. In the first stages of the paralysis, it may be 

 imoroved by reducing the inflammation or by removing the 

 pressure on the nerve or its branches. But, as a rule, par- 

 alysis of one or both facial nerves is incurable. Yet the 

 drooping of the eyelid may be removed by a surgical opera- 

 tion too complicated and difficult for unskilled hands. 



DISEASES OF THE HAW OR MEMBRANA NIC- 

 TITANS. 



The conjunctival mucous membrane which covers the haw 

 may be intlamed when the other parts of the coujunctiva are 

 diseased. Also the haw may be pushed out over the eye 

 when the eyeball is drawn back into the socket, Avhich is 

 done in certain eye diseases and for protection. In such 

 cases uninformed persons say the horse has the "hooks'" and 

 at once proceed to cruelly cut them out. It is scarcely 

 necessary to remark that nearly every case of so-called 

 "hooks" is only a symptom of another disease and would 

 certainly disappear if the real disease were removed. 



Fict. 5. 

 Abnormal extension of the haw or "eye-washer" as observed in 

 tetanus (lockjaw) inflammation of the haw, etc. This continued pro- 

 jection of the haw, is many times called "hooks." 



In some instances the haw is injured by being torn at the 

 upper part of its free margin or it may be torn or cut in 

 other places by injuries. Nearly all cases of injury recover 

 without treatment, but should the separated or divided haw 



