Inflammation of the Eyes, J% 



is, that the other eye will remain sound for many years^ and per- 

 haps even during the lifetime of the animal. 



This fact is so commonly known, that it has given rise to a prac- 

 tice, at once both cruel and impolitic ; that of thrusting a red-hot 

 needle or awl into the diseased eye, with a view to the total destruc- 

 tion of the power of vision in the organ. 



But the vehemence of the inflammation which is excited in the 

 diseased eye by the operation, is sometimes so prodigious, that the 

 sound eye becomes violently inflamed from sympathy, and the entire 

 loss of both, has frequently been the consequence of the practice. 



Having already declared my opinion respecting the insufficiency of 

 our most powerful medicines, to remove such dense opacitres of the 

 Cornea, as are called Films, it is not necessary for me to enlarge 

 upon this subject here, — but, if some application be insi&ted on, a. 

 little of the eye powder. No. 2, may be blown into the eye, once a 

 week, by way of rousing up the deficient energy of the absorbents. 



