344 Veteriyiary Medicine. 



For abortive treabyient Fick reconimends dr}- heat from a pocket 

 handkerchief or a heated teaspoon. If pus is present it must be 

 evacuated, and recurrence guarded against b}' cleanliness and 

 antiseptics. Use pj^oktannin solution (i : loco), or mercuric 

 chloride (i : 5000) or yellow oxide of mercury ointment. 



CHAIvAZION. 



This is a pea like tumor growing from the tarsal cartilage, its 

 flattended side toward the mucosa, which is red and angry, and 

 its round surface toward the skin. When manipulated between 

 the fingers it moves with the tarsus. It is usually of slow growth 

 and may continue for years apparently unchanged. Some have 

 thought it tuberculous, but its true nature is uncertain. Warner 

 records the disea.se in the horse. 



Treatment consists in incision and removal of the tumor, curret- 

 ting of the cavity, and after antiseptic douching, suturing the lips. 



TUBERCULOSIS OF THE EYELID. 



Described by Jewsejenke in the lower lid of birds, this is mani- 

 fested by small, hard round knots, covered by bluish red, or yel- 

 lowish red skin, and when incised showing a characteristic miliary 

 tubercle, with bacilli and sometimes a caseated centre. It is 

 treated by incision, curretting and caustics. 



TURNED-IN EYELASH. TRICHIAvSIS. 



Sometimes an eyelash grows inward so as to impinge upon the 

 front of the eyeball, or even to extend between this and the eye- 

 lid. The condition exists in entropion but trichiasis is rather the 

 deviation of one or two cilia by reason of their false direction, in- 

 dividually. It may occur as the result of a pre-existing infiani- 



