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succeed in carrying off the irritant, which may be too small to discern. 

 This, however, is usually to be considered merely a preliminary step, and 

 my Eye Lotion No. 2 should be then used to remove the inflammation thus 

 caused. If your dog brings about a swollen or inflamed condition of the 

 eyelids through a chance scratch of the claws in rubbing their face, use 

 my Eye Lotion No. 2, after having first bathed the parts with warm water. 

 Different form of indigestion may be associated with irritation of the 

 mucous membranes throughout, and the eyes will suffer in common with 

 the other parts. Rheumatism is also one of the maladies which are at- 

 tended with inflammation, more or less pronounced, of the eyes, with the 

 eyeball itself and the lids participating in the disorder. It must, therefore, 

 be obvious that the common expression, "a discharge from the«eyes," may 

 refer to a variety of morbid conditions which are not to be counteracted 

 by an application of a lotion to the eye. Perhaps a safe guide for the 

 tyro in medicine may be found in the duration of the discharge. In any 

 case of simple irritation from the presence of dirt or grit it may be fairly ex- 

 pected that the symptoms will cease very quickly upon the application of 

 simple remedies, that is to say after it has been clearly ascertained that 

 there is no offending body adherent to the underneath part of the eyelid. 

 The continuance of the discharge week after week, or even month after 

 month, may certainly be taken to mean that something more than ordinary 

 irritation of a simple kind is present, and under such circumstances the 

 chances are that the common eye water, for example, three or four grains of 

 boracic acid in an ounce of rose water, for example, three or four grains of 

 possibly do some harm by checking the discharge, which is really critical 

 in its character. The proper course in such cases would be to consult an 

 expert in diseases of the dog, who will most probably be able to find some 

 constitutional cause to account for what has been looked upon as a local 

 disorder. 



Eye, Amaurosis of the. — This is a loss of sight, partial or entire, arising 

 from one of several causes; the optic nerve is palsied, which may have 

 arisen from a blow near the eye. Exhaustion from suckling will produce 

 amaurosis and bitches sometimes exhibit it during gestation; excess of light 

 is also a cause. The eye is unnaturally clear and glittering, the pupil ex- 

 panded and fixed, and that the dog is partially or entirely blind is seen by 

 his stepping high and with needless care when nothing is in his way and 

 running against things that are. If when you feint a blow the eye does not 

 move, total blindness may be assumed. 



Eberhart's Eye Lotion No. 2 (See Opthalmia) may do a lot of good if 

 used at once, as I have never found any case of eye trouble that it did not 

 help or cure. This eye lotion should not be kept on hand very long, how- 

 ever, as the camphor water in it destroys its virtues after a time. If you 

 find the trouble due to a deranged nervous system, 3 to 10 drops of tincture 

 of nux vomica in a little water, twice daily after food, is useful. 



Eyeball, Protrusion of. — It sometimes occures in fighting that the eye- 

 ball is forced out of its socket, and the lid, contracting, prevents its return. 

 I cannot recommend the amateur to attempt to return the eyeball to its 



