Chap. XXIII. Of Moon-Eyes y ^c 77 



Some make the Rowel at the Side of each Eye, which 

 is not amifs, when upon the Mufcles on the Flat of the 

 Cheek-Bone. Others make a Seaton under the Poll, which 

 is alfo very proper, and will not disfigure a Horfe fo much 

 as the other. The Way to perform this is, by pafling a large 

 three-edg'd Needle under that Part of the Horfe's Neck- 

 where his Mane begins ; or if you would rather chufe to 

 do it without Blood, make Ufe of a fliarp Iron almoft red 

 Hot ; when you have pierced the Flefh, have a large Probe- 

 Needle in Readinefs, with a plaited Hempen Cord, or one 

 of Hair dip'd in Wax or Bafilicon^ to follow the Iron : This 

 may be moved once or twice a Day, and every now and 

 then frefh Ointment put upon it to keep it running. 



But there are befides the taking up of Veins and Rowel- 

 ing, feveral other Operations made by Farriers for the Cuie 

 of Lunatick Eyes ; as the giving the Fire, and cauterizing 

 the upper Part of the Forehead ; and fonie, when tl^e Cale 

 has been defperate, have had Recourfe to a very defperatc 

 Cure, and to fave one Eye, have put out the other, by run- 

 ning a Needle acrofs through the Eye-Ball: But we can 

 fay very little in favour of thefe Operations, not only as 

 they are both exceilive painful and uncertain, but alfo as 

 they have had but fmall Approbation by thole who have 

 been the beft Judges. But there is one other, which, ia 

 fome Cafes, may be necelfary ; and if it does not make a 

 Cure, yet if it be well perform'd, it fometimes affords Re- 

 lief, and that is cutting out the Haiu^ which is only Ibme 

 Part of the Kernelly Subftance that lies at the Corners and 

 Bottom of the Eye, which being very much relax'd, and, 

 as it were, foak'd by the continual Influx of the Rheum, at 

 length enlarges to fuch a Degree, that like a Piece of 

 Sj^unge, it thrufts out the under Eyelid, and thereby oc- 

 crJions both Pain and continual Weeping. 



Now when you have apply'd all things that are proper to 

 harden and conilringe that Ghndulous Subrtance, and fo to 

 make it contrail itfelf^ but without Saccefs ; and when you 

 obferve the Excrefcence grown lb large that it cannot be 

 eafily dellroy'd by any Application, that would not at the 

 fame time hazard the Eye, then Recourfe muft be had to cut- 

 ting, which ought to be gone about in the following manner. 



'ihe Horfe bein^ caft, and fo fecui'd that he ^r , , ^, 

 ^ ' , - , ., , , Ho-jj to cut the 



cannot move, you are to take a Needle arm d ^y^^^^^ ^^^^ ^/ ^ 



with a wax'd Thread, and having pierc'd HorVs Eye. 

 hsi under Eyelid below the Grille that fur- 

 rounds 



