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traneous body, fuch as a hay- feed ; which 

 being fufpefted, the eye ought inilantly to be 

 fearched with a foft rag, or piece of fpunge 

 dipped ill warm {l<.im-milk and water, to which 

 may be added a tea-fpoonful of aqua-vegeto. 

 I have now before me a memorandum of a colt, 

 one eye of which appeared as above defcribed ; 

 dreading to give the animal pain, I would not 

 fuffcr the eye to be opened and fearched, al- 

 though the caufe of the complaint was fufpedl- 

 ed. It continued exceffively bad feveral weeks, 

 the colt lofing his appetite and falling away in 

 confequence, until the inflammation being 

 abated, and the eye opened, a fear upon the 

 external coat, left by the offending particle, 

 perhaps an oat-hull, was vifible, and w^as not 

 obliterated under feveral months. 



A cafe of flight, or fuperficial opthalmy, will 

 generally give w^ay in a few days to topical 

 applications, of the emollient and repellent 

 kind. It is the general practice to have re- 

 courfe to repellents in the firft inftance ; all I 

 have a right to fay is, I have fometimes feen 

 the ill fuccefs of it, by an increafe of the in- 

 flammatory fymptoms, to allay which it has 

 become necellary to make infant ufe of emol- 

 lients. I have fuccefsfully treated inflamed 

 eyes in horfes, with warm fkim-milk and water, 

 repeated often, and bread and milk poultices, 

 until the heat and tenfion had abated ; after- 



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