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tention of utility. Tlie eyes (one more par- 

 ticularly) had been some months in a state 

 of failure and fluctuation, alternately pro- 

 ducing hope and despair ; when, after un- 

 dergoing every experiment at home without 

 even a probability of success, he was con- 

 signed to my inspection, with a desire that I 

 would be very minute in my instructions, 

 which should be implicitly obeyed. Upon 

 examination, I discovered the defect to have 

 taken its seat in the humours of the eye, 

 with no external inflammation attending, nor 

 any other predominant trait than a dull 

 cloudy aspect of the entire orb ; displaying 

 a pearly tint upon the outer edge of the cor- 

 nea, surrounded by the tunica sclerotis, in- 

 dicating the great probability of Jilm and 

 opacity, constituting in its gradual tennina- 

 tion total blindness. 



This horse, I found upon inquiry, had 

 been treated in a way nearly similar to 

 what we have just described ; for, having 

 been repeatedly bled and purged, he had 

 been subsi.>ted upon hot ?nashes, and fur- 

 pished with fouj' ounces of nitre a day in 



