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orders. When the eyelid is closed, and tears drop from it, 

 attend to the case at once. Remove all the causes of the disease. 

 Examine the c^'C and remove any hay seed or other substance 

 that may have caused it. Bind a cloth over the eyes, and wet 

 it with arnica and water, one pint of water to an ounce of arnica. 

 Repeat this for several nights, sponging the eye several times a 

 day with cold water. If inflammation is excessive, and white 

 spots are sepn on the eye, indicating sores or abscess, bleed three 

 pints, and use the eye-wash invented and prescribed by Dr. 

 Stewart. {See Remedies.) The blood should now be attended to. 

 Give two or three ounces of sulphur, every other day for a week, 

 and every other week for six weeks. If inflammation does not 

 decrease, bleed the inner surface of the eyelid, or the eye vein. 

 Give no corn, but green food or roots. Specific Ophthalmia, 

 or Moon Eyes, is a terrible disease, without cure. It is caused by 

 the fumes of impure stables. Symptoms: — Swollen eyelids,, tears; 

 the circumference of the ball is inflamed ; the horse cannot 

 bear the lid to be lifted in the light, but will submit in the 

 shade, the iris loses its bright color, and grows lighter; the 

 whole eye is disorganized. *Soon these symptoms disappear 

 only to break out again with renewed violence. Sometimes it 

 atUicks one eye, sometimes both ; it changes from one eye to the 

 other, disappears and returns, but continually grows worse, and 

 finally produces total blindness in one or both eyes. To check 

 the disease, and save one eye, should be attempted. The horse 

 should have a roomy, well-ventilated stall, perfectly dark in 

 front, but well lighted from behind or above. Open the eye 

 vein, and puncture the interior of the lid. Put a cloth saturated 

 with cold water over both eyes, at night, and if the eyelids are 

 very much inflamed add one ounce of arnica to a pint of water, 

 and keep the cloths wet with this during the forenoon. Give 

 green food, or roots, but no corn, and but little hay. Give the 



