226 Ma7iagement and Treatment qf the Horse. 



Or the following is equally as good : — 



Powdered leaves of foxglove 1 ounce. 



Boiling water 1 quart. 



It is always advisable to give mashes for food, 

 and mild doses of physic. Three or four days 

 should be enough to remove this complaint. If 

 it does not, you may infer that instead of common 

 inflammation you have a case of ophthalmia, and 

 should call in the aid of the veterinary surgeon, 

 as it will, if not properly treated in its first 

 stages, end in total blindness. 



OPHTHALMIA. 



Ophthalmia is manifested by great inflamma- 

 tion in the eyelids as well as in the cornea, and 

 a watery humour and iris, all of which assume 

 a dim appearance, and lose their transparency. 

 The animal can hardly open its eyelids from the 

 pain produced by exposure to the light. This 

 disease is extremely difficult to combat, and after 

 a month's constant treatment the eye will exhibit 

 an alternation of remission and increase of inflam- 

 mation day after day. One day it will have all 

 the appearance of being nearly well, and on the 

 next exhibit more unfavourable symptoms than 

 it has before assumed. The gorged appearance 

 of the inner membrane of the eyelid will be much 

 abated, and the inflammation on the white of the 

 eyeball will have nearly quitted it, the hazy aspect 

 of the cornea will have assumed a certain degree 

 of clearness, and to all appearance the malady 

 will have taken its departure. This appearance 



