EYES. 6§ 



Treatment The application of cold water ; or if the cold 

 seem to give pain, warm water should be used instead. 

 Open the angular veins. This is done as follows : Take 

 a sharp knife, and simply cut the skin and the veins which 

 are seen underneath at the lower corner of the eye, and 

 bathe with warm water, which will induce them to bleed 

 freely. Give grass, or some other opening and cool feed. 

 Give, also, half-ounce doses of sulphite of soda daily for a 

 few days. The nitrate of silver lotion, or the blue stone, 

 will do ; it is cheap and easily procured, and therefore 

 better adapted for the farmer or stable man. Apply as 

 elsewhere recommended. Never use sugar of lead lotions 

 as an eye-wash to the eye, which books so often recommend. 

 They are positively injurious to the eye by their producing 

 dulness, or opacity of the cornea — or the clear, transparent 

 part of the eye — the very brightness of which indicates 

 health, beauty, and intelligence in a horse ; so, once for all, 

 I say, use no Goulard's solution of lead. Copper is in- 

 finitely better, and never leaves dimness of the eye or vision. 

 If copper be not at hand, chloride of zinc, one grain, to an 

 ounce of rain or distilled water, is an excellent application 

 to the eye of a horse suffering from purulent opthalmia. 

 (See Medicines and Prescriptions.) 



(1 2.) Moon Blindness, terminating in Cataract. — 

 This disease is a serious one, and frequent, consisting of in- 

 flammation of the internal parts of tlie eye-ball, the choroid 

 coat and the iris more particularly. 



Symptoms. In the morning, perhaps, the eyelids will be 

 found closed ; a large flow of tears ; the back portion of the 

 eye dim and clouded. No specks are to be seen, as in some 

 other diseases of the eye. A yellow border will be observed 

 at the bottom of the chamber. This is pus. The attack, 

 or inflammation, will last from two to three weeks ; at th« 



