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io contact with, in the performance of which the animal 

 often injures the eye itself. The edges of the eyelids 

 should be anointed with the following ointment, which, 

 after two or three applications will invariably effect a 

 cure : — Hog's lard half an ounce, beeswax half an ounce, 

 nitrated ointment of mercury half an ounce. 



WARTS. 



These are ofttimes a troublesome thing on the eye- 

 lid, and indeed on any part of the horse. Many different 

 modes are resorted to to take them away, such as tying a 

 piece of silk tightly round them and allowing them to 

 rot off, but the quickest, most simple, and effective, is to 

 take a pair of sharp scissors and cut them off close to the 

 skin. Then touch the roots with nitrate of silver or 

 lunar-caustic, and they will heal up in a few days and 

 cease to trouble. They seldom come again when once 

 cut off and caustic is applied. 



GUTTA SERENA. 



This is another disease of the eye which happily is 

 not often met with, and exhibits itself by an extraordinary 

 dilation of the pupil, which becomes immovable and has 

 a bright glassy appearance. This is caused by a paralysis 

 of the optic nerve, or the surface of the retina, or what is 

 often called the mirror of the eye, occasioned by a deter- 

 mination of blood to the brain, and its consequent 

 pressure on the optic nerve thus destroying its functions. 

 Cures in this disease are very rare ; indeed I doubt if any 

 well-authenticated cases really exist. Of the three cases 

 which have come under my observation during the past 



