114 MOOX EYES. 



Method for extracting the Haw. 



Castile soap, one ounce ; 

 Emetic tartar, two drachnns ; 

 Liquorice powder, sufficient to make tbem 

 into balls, two ounces each. 



One of these balls may be given every other 

 day for some time ; and by a steady perseverance 

 in the application of the aforesaid medicines a 

 cure may soon be expected. The haxv is a horny 

 substance, which grows in the inner corner of the 

 eye, and is, for the most part, necessary to be taken 

 out in this disease. The operation is performed 

 in the following manner. The horse's head must 

 be well confined, and his nose tzvitched, with a 

 contrivance made for the purpose : this being 

 done, take half-a-crown, and pass the edge 

 of it betwixt the eye and the hdsv ; then take a 

 crooked needle, threaded with silk, and pass it 

 through the haw against the half-crown (by this 

 means the eye will be out of all danger) ; and by 

 drawing the silk a little towards you, it pulls it 

 from the eye ; then with a good pair of scissars 



