CHAPTER 11. 



■ Oil the EYE. 



jL fie great utility of sight to animals which 

 enjov the faculty of loco-motion, must render 

 an inquiry into the diseases of that organ pecu- 



liarly interestin 



Inflammatory attacks on the eye of the 

 horse, eventually producing blindness, are so 

 general as almost to sanction a belief, that he is 

 naturally more subject to this infirmity than any 

 other animal. Such a supposition, however, 

 would tend more to arraign the wisdom of Pro- 

 vidence, than to throw any light on the subject. 

 A difference in the perfection of the eye, a< 

 well as of other parts of the body, certainl\- 

 prevails amongst different horses ; but not to 

 such a degree as to occasion blindness, provided 



the 



