ROE ON THE HORSE. :i 1 



TREATMENT. 



Place the horse in a dark, cool stable and 

 wash the eye six or eigM s tY\nes per day with a 

 solution of Sugar of Leaa and Beladona, in the 

 proportion of 30 grains of .the first to 15 of the 

 latter, in 1 quart of rainwater; give the horse a 

 tablespoonful or two of Glauber Salts in each 

 pail of water, and if he will riot take enough in 

 that way to keep the bowels open, give by drench, 

 and injections of soap-suds, and should they be 

 very much irritated, a seton a little way removed 

 from the eye, towards the curve of the jaw, has 

 been extoled as highly efficacious. The idea used 

 to prevail very generally that wolf teeth (so 

 called) were the common, if not universal cause 

 of all natural blindness, and even yet appears to 

 be entertained by some; never reflecting that the 

 teeth are just as subservient to the health and 

 well-doing of the horse as the eye and that they 

 will be removed in their own natural time with 

 out any violence. 



B. 



Is an enlargement which makes its appear- 

 ance about two inches below the hock, and may 

 be occasioned by a blow, but in my opinion is 

 much oftener the result of over straining before 

 the bone has acquired its full strength. Some 

 authors have attributed it to straining of the 

 sheath through which the flexor tendons pass, 

 but I consider it of much greater importance to 

 (if possible) seek out the cure, than indulge in 

 unimportant speculation in reference to cause. 



