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lid being incised in a vertical direction a short distance on each 

 side of the sore and the inner edges accnrately stitched together. 

 The raw surface left on the bulb thus comes in contact only with 

 the healthy mucous strips on the eyelid, which have been drawn 

 together over the seat of the former sore, and the two new raw 

 surfaces formed on the lid are well to each side of the sore on 

 the bulb, and are in contact with its healthy mucosa only. Thus 

 no two raw surfaces can come in contact, and adhesion is obviated. 

 When the fornix is implicated mucous membrane from the 

 mouth, vulva, the bronchia of the rabbit, or the skin of the frog 

 must be transplanted after the requisite incision of the cicatrix 

 has been made. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE EYELIDS. BLEPHARITIS. 



Phlegmon. Causes : traumas, skin disease. Symptoms : swelling, red- 

 ness, distortion, infiltration, semi-closed lids, scabs, sloughs, abscess. 

 Tenderness. Itching. In eczema papules, vesicles, weeping eye. Treat- 

 ment : antiseptic astringent lotions, almond oil, vaseline, zinc oxide, 

 salicylic acid, boric acid, starch, xeroform, pyoktannin ; for eczema, mer- 

 cury oxides, silver nitrate. ^ 



Conjunctivitis will be treated later, and under the present head 

 there will be considered only the phlegmon of the outer structures. 



Causes. This lesion may come from two distinct causes, traum- 

 atism and skin disease. The traumatisms in horses and cattle are 

 bruises sustained in rolling, especially during colics, in striking 

 the head against posts, poles, shafts and other solid bodies, in 

 enduring blows with horns or clubs, or frictions by the halter or in 

 putting on a collar. Dogs suffer especially from blows with clubs 

 and kicks from men or animals. All may suffer from wounds of the 

 lids, and from extensions of eczema and other .skin diseases. 



The symptoms consLst in swelling, redness, distortion, and often 

 extensive infiltration of the lid, some times aversion with exposure 

 of the reddened conjunctiva, usually abrasion, contusion, puncture 

 or laceration, semi-closed eye, the upper eyelid being compara- 

 tively immovable (ptosis), and the formation of scabs, .sloughs, 

 or absce.ss. There may be extreme tenderness, or, more com- 



