242 THE FARM DOCTOR. 



WHITE SPECKS AND CLOUDINESS OF THE EYE. 



These are the results of inflammation, and if confined to the 

 transparent outer coat of the eye may usually be removed by 

 touching daily with a feather dipped in a solution of 3 grs. 

 nitrate of silver in an ounce of distilled water. Such an appli- 

 cation should never be made while the part is still inflamed 

 and the eyelids swollen and red, as it will then be painful and 

 injurious. It will usually fail to remove the speck when that 

 consists in a thick cicatrix following an ulcer, or when red 

 vessels are seen running across it. 



ULCERS OF THE TRANSPARENT CORNEA. 



These also follow inflammation and are to be recognised by 

 the visible breaks or abrasions in the surface layers of the 

 transparent coat of the eye. Apply the same agent as] for 

 specks, but of double or treble the strength, and improve the 

 general health by a Hberal diet and a course of tonics (sulphate 

 of iron, nux vomica, cinchona). 



TUMOURS OF THE TRANSPARENT CORNEA. 



These, if not of a cancerous nature, nor connected with the 

 vascular coloured curtain which encircles the pupil (the iris), 

 may be removed with the knife or scissors, the part touched 

 with a stick of nitrate of silver, and a lotion like that used for 

 simple ophthalmia applied on a cloth. 



ENZOOTIC OPHTHALML\ IN CATTLE AND SHEEP. 



This affection attacks one or several herds or flocks in a 

 locality, at any season and without apparent cause, excepting 

 proximity. The symptoms are those of simple ophthalmia, but 

 of a severe type, with much fever and complete clouding of the 

 eye from exudation into the whole thickness of the transparent 

 cornea, followed by ulceration and sometimes perforation of 

 this membrane, loss of the oumours of the eye, and permanent 

 blindness. 



