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DISEASES OF THE EYES 



cavity should he powdered with boracic acid or sulphonal. Pack the orbit 

 with absorbent cotton and put two stitches in the eyelids. The stitches 

 and packing must be removed in twenty-four hours. The further treat- 

 ment consists in cleaning out the cavity with corrosive sublimate solution 

 (1 to 3000) twice daily. Dogs are not badly disfigured by the loss of 

 one eye, as the orbit becomes contracted and partially filled with granula- 



FiG. 150. — Muscles of the left eye: a, Superior; b, external; c, inferior straight muscles of the eye; 1 

 eyeball; 2, orbital arch cut through. 



tions. It is not advisable to use artificial eyes, as the animal generally 

 rubs them out, and such operations as tattooing the stump, only removing 

 the anterior portion of the eye, or cleaning out the contents of the eye- 

 ball and stitching up the sclerotic membrane are not only invariably 

 impracticable but very apt to act an as irritant and cause a constant 

 discharge from the cavity, and the empty orbit always presents a dis- 

 gusting appearance. 



