7S , Inflammation of tlie Eyes. 



would not be deficult to prove, that it is tven more inimical to^ 

 Horses than the vicissitudes of temperature, which they are for 

 ever called upon to endure. And for this plain reason, that it is 

 usual with all thinking people, to take every measure of prevention, 

 in order to guard as much as possible, against the effect of such 

 vicissitudes. Nay, is it not notorious that it is half the business of 

 the lives of superior grooms, and managers of the stables of the 

 great, to prevent their Horses (especially those of the most valuable- 

 description) from catching cold, as it is called, although it cannot 

 be admitted that their general system of treatment is but ill calculated^ 

 to produce the desired effect. Looking at the matter, however, in 

 this point of view, and speaking in the ordinary acceptation of the 

 word, cold may be considered a sort of open undisguised enemy, 

 whose attacks are constantly suspected, and whose approaches every 

 one is prepared to repel. But, Volatile Alkali is an enemy of a very- 

 different description, a foe that no one suspects, who silently and in- 

 perceptibly enters the citadel in the disguise of a friend, and gradu- 

 ally undermines the very foundations of the edifice. - 



Before I conclude the subject of moon-blindness, it is right that 

 I should notice a few more circumstances, connected with the disease. 



Now, it mostly happens that one eye only, is at first attacked with 

 inflammation, and on the disease subsiding, the other eye imme- 

 diately becomes affected. Thus, the disorder continues to fly from 

 one eye to the other, alternately, until a cataract takes place in both, 

 and the Horse becomes totally and incurably blind; but if the inflam- 

 mation (how frequently soever it may fluctuate,) continue confined to 

 one eye only, and end ultimately in 3i hard cataract, the probability 



