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most likely to relieve it, after which use some exciting 

 means to give energy to the absorbents, and for this 

 purpose nothing is better than corrosive sublimate in 

 solution, two grains in an ounce and a-half of water will 

 be found quite strong enough. This should be syringed 

 into the eye twice or three times a day. If opacity of 

 the lens has taken place we are not aware of anything 

 that will remove it, indeed it is a given fact amongst the 

 veterinary surgeons of note that no cure has been found, 

 yet it is always advisable to call in the aid of the veteri- 

 nary surgeon in diseases of the eye, for although they 

 are few in number they are of vital consequence, as the 

 least mistake in the treatment terminates in total blind- 

 ness. 



THE HAW. 



It is not an unusual thing for a thickening of this 

 part of the eye to take place, and protrude on the fore 

 part of the eyeball ; in this disease the retractor muscle 

 pulls back the eye to protect it from the irritating effect 

 of the light, and the thickening of the haw pushes it 

 forward, and in consequence of the adjacent parts being 

 thickened no retraction can take place. In former times 

 the old veterinary surgeons used to cut out the haw of 

 the eye, but that cruel, useless, and absurd practice is 

 now abandoned by the enlightened veterinary surgeon, 

 who knows the use of the haw of the eye of the horse, 

 and allows Nature's handiwork to remain intact. Nature 

 evidently intended the haw of the eye to protect the eye 

 from dust and insects. The horse has no hands to take 

 out dust or insects that may get into the eye, so Nature 



