INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 



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When the cloudiness or opacity of the cornea is tardy in being 



removed, the eye should be stimulated daily with the following 



collyriuni : — 



5 grains nitrate of silver, 

 1 ounce distilled water. 

 Apply by means of a feather or camers-hair unish. 



• If he must be used or kept hi the sunlight, 

 the eye should bo kept covered with a l)hu' 

 cloth tied loosely over it. It is very impoi'tant 

 to attend to any such form of local inflamma- 

 tion promptly ; not only treating properly, 1 )ut, 

 if possible, take him from all work, since, if 

 neglected, or the inflaunnation aggravated by 

 heating the blood, the sight is liable to be de- 

 stroyed, or run into periodic opthalmia. It is 

 somewhat wonderful how much injury the eye 

 will recover from, when treated with any kind 

 of care. 



Twenty years ago, when diiving hoi'ses 

 without reins was regarded as a great feat, in 

 training them to drive in this wa}', it was sometimes necessary to 

 use the whip very severely over the head, wlien the eye was lia- 

 ble to be struck, and so seriously 

 injured as to close it and make it 

 entirely white from inflaunnation 

 in a short time. Yet, in every 

 case, by bathing with cold watei", 

 keeping in a dark place, and if 

 moved, keeping the eye covered 

 with a cloth, in a few days the 

 eye entirely recovered. 



Once, while trainmg Gifford, 

 one of my old paii- of trained horses, he ran incidentally against 

 the corner of a stair, striking the eye so severely as to instantly 

 destroy his power of sight; the eye was entirely closed, and red 

 with inflammation. In this case I simply kept the eye covered 

 with a cloth kept constantly wet with water, in which was tinct- 

 ure of aconite in the pro])ortion of about 40 drops to half a pint 

 of Avater. There was entire lecovery within a week. This jnild 



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ui. 856. — Goodraeth- 

 1x1 (if covering 

 the eye. 



Fig. 857.^ — Reversed.view of tlie above. 



