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cause may be discovered. This seldom affects the health 



of the horse, or prevents his feeding. 



Remedies — The eye should be bathed with the following 



lotion : — 



Sugar of lead . . 1 drachm, 



IvGse-water ... 6 ounces. 



If this does not speedily abate the inflammation, then use 



the following : — 



Tincture of opium, or laudanum J ounce, 

 Water ... . . 1 pint. 



Or the following will prove equally efficacious : — 

 Powdered leaves of digitalis . 1 ounce, 

 Boiling water ... 1 quart. 



His food should consist of mashes, with mild doses of physic. 



Three or four days should remove the disease. 



OPHTHALMIA. 



Symptoms. — This is manifested by great inflammation m 

 the eyelids, as also the cornea and aqueous humour and iris, 

 all of which assume a dim appearance, and lose their 

 transparency. The animal can hardly open its eyelids from 

 the pain produced by exposing the eye to the action of light. 

 This disease is extremely difficult to combat ; and after a 

 month's constant treatment the eye will exhibit an alterna- 

 tion of remission and increase of the inflammation day after 

 day. One day it will have all the appearance of being 

 nearly well, and on the next exhibit more unfavourable 

 symptoms than it has before assumed : the gorged appear- 

 ance of the inner membrane of the eyelid will be much 

 abated, and the inflammation on the white of the eyeball 

 will have nearly quitted it ; the hazy aspect of the cornea 

 have assumed a certain degree of clearness, and to all appear- 

 ance the malady has taken its departure. 



