142 KAVIX ox THE HOESE. 



cause:^, it will be proper to bleed and physic. At tbe same 

 time put a rowel about two inches below the eye. 



The following wash may be used once or twice a day : 



Take— Sulpliate of zinc 10 grains. 



Sugar of lead 20 grains. 



Loaf-sugar 1 dram. 



Eain-water 1 q^art. 



Mix, and wash the eye with the liquid. 



If a coat or film is appearing on the eye, I have found the 

 following preparation to almost invariably remove it. It is 

 very severe, but is as near a universal remedy for the eye as 

 can be found. It may be used in any case that is very obsti- 

 nate. Notwithstanding its severity, I have never known any 

 harm to result from its use. Take an egg and break the end 

 of it, and pour out the most of the white, then break up the 

 yellow, and stir in with it enough salt to make a stiif mass. 

 Then set the egg on the hot coals in the fire, cover with coals, 

 and let it remain until it is perfectly charred, or until it quits 

 blazing; it is then to be removed from the fire and reduced to 

 a perfectly fine powder, and kept in a well-stopped bottle. A 

 portion of this is to be put in a quill and blown into the eye 

 once a day. 



" HOOKS," OR INFLAMMATION OF THE HAW. 



This is an affection of a part of the eye, being an in- 

 flammation of the haiv. This difiiculty seems to be thoroughly 

 understood by almost everybody, quite as well as they under- 

 stand "^*ofo." And the eye of a horse can hardly become 

 affected, but some wiseacre examines it, and, seeing the haw, 

 (which is always present, and is a very necessary organ, as 

 we shall see), pronounces the case ''hooks,'' and recommends 

 that they be ''cut oiif'— the great and universal remedy. And 

 the owner, feeling "that something has got to be done," and 

 being ignorant of the structure and nature of the diseases 



