DISEASES OF THE OX AND SHEEP. 60B 



be treated with a cathartic drench, rest, cold-water applications, 

 and with suitable internally-administered remedies. 



SECTION X.—THE EYE AND THE EAB AND THEIE 

 DIS0EDEB8. 



THE EYE AND THE EAR. 



Of the various channels wherewith we human beings, in com- 

 mon with animals, are enabled to communicate, and, so to speak, 

 to converse with the great throbbing heart of Nature, the chief 

 are these two organs, the eye and the ear, which, limited as they 

 undoubtedly are, are yet wondrously perfected and marvellously 

 fashioned for the purposes they so well subserve. 



Speaking of mankind, we may say that this is especially true, 

 for in healthy human beings the most complex parts of these 

 important mechanisms of sight and hearing, i.e. the arrange- 

 ments in the central receptive structure, the brain, are of amazing 

 exactitude. Sometimes even we seem to hear and see the inmost 

 heart of the great Mother Nature herself, to realise in all their 

 weird intensity, in all their sublime and thrilling splendour, the 

 beautiful mysteries spread before our gaze. 



There are times in the lives of most of us when we stay awhile 

 in our career towards that inevitable end which will soon come to 

 all of us, and stand, and listen in solitary silence to the solemn 

 sounds of the music of the universe. At such times as these the 

 Eternal Spirit seems verily to speak to us, and with us, to answer 

 our searching inquiries ; then, indeed, we seem to see her inmost 

 heart, we hear her wild shouts of rejoicing, her subdued and calm 

 sorrow, we feel her melancholy, her unfaltering resignation, and 

 thus we, too, are led to meet all things that shall be and must 

 be, rejoiced beyond measure to think and know that sooner or 

 later all must be well for those who never cease striving to do 

 wisely and well. 



We hear the quiet sighs and silvery whispers, and heavy wails 

 and dull, leaden croaks of sadness and misery and despair, and 

 now a joyous chorus of exultation, as the huge star-bespangled 

 wheel of the universe turns slowly but surely round and round 

 and round. A message, a mission seems to be sent to each 



