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SECTION XVII. 



DISEASES OF THE EYES AND THEIR APPENDAGES. 



CONJUNCTIVAL 

 OPHTHALMIA 



CATARRHAL 



|SYMPATHETIC 



TRAUMATIC 



OPACITY OF THE CORNEA 



PERIODIC OPHTHALMIA 



CATARACT 



GLAUCOMA 



AMAUROSIS 



WORM IN THE EYE 



FUNGUS H^MATODES 

 OSSIFICATION 



LACERATION OF THE EYELID 

 ENLARGEMENT OF THE LA- 

 CHRYMAL CARUNCLE 

 FISTULA OF THE EYE-PIT 

 FISTULA LACHRYMALIS 

 FUNGUS OF THE ORBIT. 



Professor Coleman was in the habit of saying in his lectures, 

 that, according to the accounts of some writers* on ophthalmic 

 medicine, the diseases of the human eye amounted to more in 

 number than the diseases of the whole body of the horse, reckoned 

 altogether ; a remark which by no means holds good in the present 

 state of the sciences, and for two reasons : — firstly, because the 

 diseases of the human eye have been found to be greatly over- 

 rated : secondly, because those the horse is obnoxious to have 

 been greatly under-rated. While the writers on human ophthal- 

 mic medicine of the Professor's day amplified and multiplied a 

 great deal too much, the Professor himself simplified and abridged 

 a great deal more than subsequent observation and experience 

 have been found to warrant : in proof of which, we need but set 

 the account given of the diseases of. the horse in the Professor's 

 lectures against the list enlarged by those diseases since brought to 

 light in the various modern veterinary works, and, above all others, 

 in the pages of THE Veterinarian. 



Perhaps no department of human pathology has sustained 



* In allusion perhaps to a work by Dr. Rowley, to which he gave the title 

 of " A Description of 118 of the principid Diseases of the Human Eye." 



