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HEALTH AND DISEASE 



Treatment of the recurrent form of ophthalmia will be the same as that 

 which has been recommended for the simple form of the disease, including 

 a frequent application of warm water while the inflammation exists, and 

 the use of a mild astringent lotion afterwards. It will, however, be 

 understood from what has been said in reference to the course of the 

 disease, that all treatment must be looked upon as merely palliative. 

 There is no remedy known which has any influence in preventing the 

 recurrence of the affection or in checking those morbid changes which 

 sooner or later terminate in total loss of vision. 



CUTANEOUS-PILIFEROUS GROWTH FROM THE CORNEA 



Every now and again these hairy growths are noticed to present them- 

 selves on some portion of the eyeball of a horse. 



For the most part they are congenital formations, but very rarely they 

 do not appear until some time after birth. 



In those cases which are congenital this growth presents itself as an 



Fig. 255. Cutaneous-Pilif erous Growth from the Cornea 



aberration of development. That is, a germ of skin appears in some part 

 of the eyeball where skin does not and should not occur. 



They cause the animal a good deal of annoyance and suffering as a 

 result of their presence, and it is only by removing them with the knife 

 that this can be remedied. 



For some reason or other these cutaneous growths are most often seen 

 in oxen and in dogs, and they are less frequently noticed in the horse, in 

 sheep, and in the human subject. 



A case is recorded as occurring in a bullock in the Veterinary Record, 

 vol. xxi, p. 235, and other cases arc referred to in the Journal of 

 Anatomy and Physiology, vol. xiv, p. 143, and also in the Veterinarian, 

 vol. xxvi, p. 777. 



