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with small gray specks, about tlie size of a 

 pin's head. These small specks do not inter- 

 rupt the entrance of light, except in a very 

 tritling degree; but they furnish a certain 

 proof, that the eyes have been diseased at some 

 former period. 



Sometimes the whiteness is confined to the 

 outward coat of the eye, and that only over 

 some part of it. In this latter case, the sight 

 is interrupted in those parts only which are 

 covered v.^ith the white iilm. This disease is 

 vulgarly supposed to arise from a film or kell 

 growing o^er the eye ; hence the animal is 

 generally tormented by the application of 

 powdered glass, and other irritating substances, 

 Avith a view to eat it off, or disperse it. The 

 disease, however, proceeds from the lymph of 

 the blood being forced between the lamina?, or 

 coats of the eye, and it cannot be removed, 

 except by absorption. 



External diseases of the eye are generally 

 attended with inflammation and s^\'elling of the 

 cye-iids, with a considerable watering or run- 

 ning of the tears. These attacks frequently 

 arise from the bites of flies, or other insects, 

 in the summer season, or from hanging down 

 the head in grazing, or from bites or blows. 

 They are easily remo\-cd l)y bleeding near the 

 part, and by the application of warm water, and 



