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once per day for three or four days. Other parts of the 

 body and other animals afPected with ringworm must be 

 treated in the same way ; since this parasitic skin disease is 

 transmissible. Inflamed, swollen eyelids from constitutional 

 diseases may be remedied by treating the disease with which 

 they are associated. 



ENTHROPITM — -FOLDING INWARD OF THE LID, 



The free margin of the lid is folded in against the eye- 

 ball; generally the entire margin of the lid is rolled inward, 

 but, at times, only that half near the inner or nasal angle of 

 the eye is thus affected. 



Fig. 3. 



Entropiam— Folding inward of the lower lid; the eye-lashes and 

 hair rub over the conjunctiva and cornea, when the eye lid or eye-ball 

 is moved, producing inflammation by constant friction. 



This disease occurs most freqently in the dog but occurs 

 also in the horse, the ox and the sheep. It has been ob- 

 served in some animals at birth ; and, no doubt, a tendency 

 toward this disease is inherited — especially among dogs. 

 Spasmodic contractions of the orbicular muscle that closes 

 the eye, a relaxation or loose condition of the skin and an 

 excessive development of the skin and tarsus of the lid, are 

 said to be prominent factors in producing entropium. 

 Scar tissue — resulting from wounds, ulcers, etc., on the 

 inner surface of the lid — contract, or make tense, the con- 



