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If the owner thinks that he has got rid of the disease 

 he will be disappointed, for in the course of a month or 

 two, either the same eye, or the other undergoes a second 

 or similar attack. All again seems to pass over, except 

 that the eye is not so perfectly restored, and a slight, 

 deeply-seated cloudiness begins to appear, and after re- 

 peated attacks and alterations of disease from eye to 

 eye, the affaii^ terminates in opacity of the lens or its 

 capsule, attended with perfect blindness from its 

 periodical return, and some supposed influence of the 

 moon. 



What is the practitioner doing all this while. He is 

 only a useless spectator if he does not apply the following- 

 remedies. Bleed from the angular vein, at the corner 

 of the eye, not from the temporal artery, for that does 

 not supply the orbit of the eye ; also scarify the lower 

 corner with a keen lancet, and take four quarts of blood 

 from the jugular vein the following day, and give the 

 following purgative : — 



Barbadoes Aloes 6 di'achms. 



Calomel 1 ,, 



Castile Soap 4 ,, 



The animal to have bran mashes, eyes covered, 

 gentle exercise in a shady place, and only four pounds 

 of hay per day. The eyes to be washed three times 

 a-day with the following lotion : — 



Crude Sal Amoniac 2 drachms. 



Vinegar 1 pint. 



EainWater, boiled and cooled 1 ,, 

 Flit into a bottle. 



Gutta Serena. 



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Another species of blindness, commonly called glass- 

 eye. The pupil is more than usually dilated — it is 

 immoveable, and bright and glassy. This is palsy of the 



