DISEASES OF THE EYE. 91 



pl^ilful h-inds, the knife often fails; or rUlier, there is a disposition to 

 reprofiuction in these turn jurs, whiv^h it is impossible to repress. 



The evM^lids of the ox are very subject to disease. Soaietinies thern 

 is a scaliness around the ed^es ; sometimes a row of pustules resem- 

 hlincr the stye of the human being: both of these diseases are fre- 

 quently a great source of annoyance. They appear early in the spring 

 of the year, and continue during the summer and the greater part of 

 the autumn, and disappear as winter comes on. A solution of while 

 vitriol, lu the proportion of a drachm to a pint of water, will often be 

 a useful application. If this fails, the nitrated ointment of quicksil- 

 ver may be smeared over the lid, taking care that none of it gets into 

 the eye. It will, however, be necessary at times to prepare for the 

 use of these by washing the part with a goulard lotion for a few days. 



Young oxen are subject to warts, which are frequently sadly teas- 

 ing. They would probably disappear after a while, but, in the mean- 

 time, they are unsightly, and much annoy the animal by getting 

 between or within the lids. They may either be clipped off with a 

 pair 01 scissors, touching the root afterwards with the lunar caustic, 

 that the wart may not be reproduced ; or — the best way when prac- 

 ticable — they may be removed by tying a ligature of fine strong silk 

 tightly round the pedicle, or root. 



The eye itself is not unfrequently inflamed, and sometimes very 

 acutely. The horse has a little shovel, concealed in the inner corner 

 of the eye, w^hich he is enabled to protrude whenever he pleases over 

 the greater part of the eye, and by aid of the tears to wipe and wash 

 away the dust and gravel which would otherwise lodge in the eye 

 and give him much pain. When the haw is swelled in disease,, the 

 ignorant farrier too often cuts it away, not knowing that it is the 

 mere effect of inflammation, and that a little cooling lotion would 

 probably abate that inflammation, and lessen the swelling, and restore 

 the part to its natural size and utility. The ox has something of the 

 same contrivance, but it is not so moveablR or so effectual ; and, when 

 lie travels over a dusty road in the heat of summer, he sadly suffers 

 from the small particles of dirt and the insects that are continually 

 flying into his eye. This is unobserved by the careless driver, and 

 inflammation is established, and the eye weeps, and becomes dim, 

 and sometimes blindness follows. 



This portion of the eye, or this third eye'fd, seems to be peculiarly 

 subject to disease. Little swellincrs, and iilcers, and f'ungous growths 

 appear upon it; and a fungus, like that just (described, springs up 

 and almost covers the eye. This is sometimes m a manner epidemi 

 on varicfus farms. 



Cut from other causes, and of the nature of which we know little, 

 injiammntion of the eye is produced, and goes and comes as in thv 

 horse, time after time, the attack being gradually more severe, ane 

 the intervals between the attacks shorter, until, as in the hcrr.e,, the 

 inflammation extends to the internal part of the eye, and the lens 

 becomes opaaue, and cataract ensues, and the ox is incurably b^ind. 



