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months I have feen an aged gelding, the haw in 

 one of the eyes of which has been increafing 

 fince five years old, at prefent is nearly in con- 

 ta6l with the pupil, and, in the opinion of the 

 farrier, bids fair in the end to blind the horfe. 

 He remarked, it ought to have been reduced in 

 the horfe's youth. The enlargement appears 

 rigid and without inflammation. In confirmed 

 opthalmy I have not obferved any particular 

 enlargement of the caruncle. Gibfon's proxi- 

 mate caufe of the haw is perhaps correal; 

 an obJiruElion of the excretory du5i, the JunBion 

 of zohich is to carry off fuperjluous moijlure 

 from the glands on the inner corners of the eyes, 

 I (hould be glad, however, to find a real and 

 effeftive fubflitute for cutting out the haw, 

 which muff be a painful and irritating opera- 

 tion. 



In the firfl; number of a promifing mifcel- 

 lany (the Monthly Regifter) which profeffes to 

 give fomething on the veterinary fubje6^, my 

 attention was attrafted by a moft curious dif- 

 fertation on the Haw, and an equally admirable 

 puff direft of the Veterinary College. The 

 gallant author proceeds—" I (hall not venture 

 to fay, that the firfl; difcovery of this membrane 

 (the niftating) in the horfe, is to be attributed 

 to the Veterinary College, but I will boldlv af- 

 firm, that if the praftical application of this dif- 

 covery were the only benefit derived from its 



profeflbrs. 



