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and cooling medicines are most likely to relieve 

 it, after which use some exciting means to give 

 energy to the absorbentSj and for this purpose 

 nothing is better than corrosive sublimate in 

 solution ; two grains in an ounce and a half of 

 water will be found quite strong enough. This 

 should be syringed into the eye twice or three 

 times a day. If opacity of the lens has taken 

 place we are not aware of anything that will 

 remove it ; indeed it is a given fact amongst the 

 veterinary surgeons of note that no cure has been 

 found, yet it is always advisable to call in the aid 

 of the veterinary surgeon in diseases of the eye ; 

 for, although they are few in number, they are of 

 vital consequence, as the least mistake in the 

 treatment terminates in total blindness. 



THE HAW. 



It is not an unusual thing for a thickening of 

 this part of the eye to take place, and protrude 

 on the fore part of the eyeball ; in this disease 

 the retractor muscle pulls back the eye to protect 

 it from the irritating effect of the light, and the 

 thickening of the haw pushes it forward, and in 

 consequence of the adjacent parts being thickened 

 no retraction can take place. In former timea 

 the old veterinary surgeons used to cut out the 

 haw of the eye, but that cruel, useless, and ab- 

 surd practice is now abandoned by the enlight- 

 ened veterinary surgeon, who knows the use of 

 the haw of the eye of the horse, and allows 

 Nature's handiwork to remain intact, Nature 



