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15 years, neither of them were cured, although bleeding, 

 medicine, the rowel and seton were tried, and from the 

 nature of the disease I have but little faith in all I have 

 read as to a cure having been effected in a single con- 

 firmed case of gutta serena or glass eye. 



GENERAL BLINDNESS AND IMPERFECT 



VISION. 

 No subject is of greater importance than the state 

 of the organs of vision of the horse, which ought to 

 occupy the first attention of a purchaser. Blindness or 

 a partial defect of the eyes often leads to many unpleasant 

 consequences to the proprietor, whether he is riding or 

 driving. It requires considerable knowledge of the 

 anatomical construction of the eye to enable anyone to 

 judge correctly of its perfection or defects ; and I am 

 sorry to say that not half of the members of the veteri- 

 nary profession pay due attention to the eye, and do not 

 make it so much of a study as should be devoted to it. 

 We have many disputes about the eye of the horse ; one 

 in particular occurred at a recent show at Islington, 

 where Professor Pritchard disqualified the winner of the 

 first prize in consequence of cataract in the eye. This 

 is one of the most difficult diseases of the eye for a 

 practical man to detect, and unless the practitioner is 

 himself blessed with good eyesight, and has been taught 

 by a thoroughly practical man how to stand, and how 

 to place the horse's eyes to the light, the chances are 

 that he will pass the horse as sound while it is in 

 fact suffering from imperfect vision. When living 

 in the neighbourhood of Hitchin, my employer had 



