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intervals of feveral days reft. Avoid drawing for 

 fome time after an attack ; and though, under the 

 immediate effefts of the difeafe, grazing only adds 

 to the complaint, yet in a young horfe, when he has 

 recovered the fit, a fix months run at grafs frequently 

 prevents a return. 



In no cafe remove the fpongy excrefcence at the 

 corner of the eye, by farriers called the haw : this 

 never occafions the difeafe, and its removal always 

 aggravates it, 



GLASS EYES. 



Horfes fometimes have one or both eyes of a 

 glalTy appearance, and greenifh colour, with the pu- 

 pil or fight of one determinate fhape : fuch an eye is 

 blind, however deceptive it may appear. The dif- 

 eafe arifes either from blood thrown over the retina, 

 or from a palfy of this nervous expanfion. Ster- 

 nutories, or fncezing powders, have been ufed, and 

 Simulating applications, as brandy, gall, &zc., intro- 

 duced within the eye; but the benefit derived has 

 feldom been confiderable. Doers now and then have 

 a fimilar complaint : a remarkably handfome pug 

 in my pofleffion, at this time labours under it. 



FARCY. 



Farcy and glanders have fome conne6lion with 

 each other ; but how much, or of what nature, it is 

 difficult to fay. Farcy is, however, more worthy of 



