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sequent attack. One attack succeeds another until the whole 

 pupil is filled with matter, constituting cataract, thus completely 

 destroying the eyesight. This disease is usually at first confined 

 to one eye, but in some cases both are affiected, one usually more 

 severely than the other. 



Treatment. This disease is deemed incurable, which fact has 

 often induced the owner of an animal thus afiected to sell him, 

 being well aware that the disease will at no distant day return, 

 and leave upon his hands a blind horse. An application of cold 

 water and the tincture of opium should be used to allay pain and 

 irritation ; cold water, one ounce ; tincture of opium, two drachms ; 

 to be applied by means of a camel's hair pencil. 



Observe. When one eye of a horse is afifected with this disease, 

 the other will also ultimately become affected. To prevent this, 

 it has been advised, as is done in man, to have the diseased eye 

 entirely extirpated. In horses, I would rather puncture the cornea 

 with a lancet, and allow the watery humor to escape, thus permit- 

 ting the diseased eye to sink in the head. This being done suc- 

 cessfully, the remaining eye will not only retain, but will increase 

 in lustre and brightness. 



False Quarter. — (See Foot Diseases.) 



Farcy. — The reader will be not a little surprised at the opinions 

 that are advanced by me in regard to this disease, especially if he 

 be a reader of the books on the diseases of horses. In these books 

 we are distinctly told that farcy is a variety of glanders, and that 

 farcy buds are of the same nature as the ulcers of the lining mem- 

 brane of the nose in cases of glanders. This may or may not be 

 true. But why not have given the reasons why these relations 

 were so sustained to each other? Thus assertion is put for fact, 

 and ignorance for great knowledge. Farcy is not a disease attack- 

 ing the absorbent vessels, nor glanders of the lining membranes 

 of the nose. Farcy, we are again told, is curable, and in the very 

 next sentence that glanders is incurable. Why this peculiarity? 

 For if the diseases be the same, they should be equally susceptible 

 of cure. From all that has been said and written on the subject 

 of farcy and glanders, nothing satisfactory has been gained, but 

 much that is calculated to perplex. Farcy is the ^' scrofula " of 

 the horse. It is unknown in countries and climes where this 



