230 Management and Ti^eatment of the Hoi'se. 



ERUPTIONS OF THE EYELIDS. 



This irritating complaint is very common to 

 the horse, and consists of a scale-like eruption. 

 This is always attended with great itching, which 

 causes the horse to rub its eyelid on the stall, or 

 anything it comes in contact with, in the per- 

 formance of which the animal often injures the 

 eye itself. The edges of the eyelids should be 

 anointed with the following ointment, which 

 after two or three applications will invariably 

 effect a cure: — 



Hog's lard half an ounce. 



Eeeswax half an ounce. 



Nitrated ointment of mercury half an ounce. 



WAETS. 



These are ofttimes a troublesome thing on the 

 eyelid, and indeed on any part of the horse. 

 Many different modes are resorted to to take 

 them away, such as tying a piece of silk tightly 

 round them and allowing them to rot off, but the 

 quickest, most 'simple, and effective is to take a 

 pair of sharp scissors and cut them off close to 

 the skin. Then touch the roots with nitrate of 

 silver or lunar caustic, and they will heal up in 

 a few days and cease to troublcc They seldom 

 come again when once cut off and caustic is 

 applied. 



GUTTA SERENA. 



This is another disease of the eye which 

 happily is not often met with, and exhibits itself 

 by an extraordinary dilation of the pupil, which 



