34 INJURY OF THE EYE. 



INJURY OF THE EYE. 



The eye itself of the horse is rarely injured 

 hy blows and bruises carelessly inflicted by pas- 

 sionate persons, but the substance that surrounds 

 it may be seriously wounded, and considerable 

 inflammation ensue — this may be abated by the 

 application of poultices, bleeding and physicing. 

 Sometimes the eye-lids become inflamed from 

 the same cause — fomentations of warm water 

 will be serviceable in this case. The horse occa- 

 sionally has a scaly eruption on the edges of the 

 eye-lids, attended with much itching, in the 

 efibrt to allay which the eye is often blemished 

 by being rubbed against some hard substance — 

 the nitriated ointment of quicksilver, mixed 

 with an equal quantity of lard may be slightly 

 rubbed on the edges of the lids, with good effect. 

 Warts are sometimes attached to the edges of 

 the lids, and are a source of great irritation — 

 they should be removed with a pair of sharp 

 sicssors^ and their roots . touched with lunar 

 caustic. In common inflammation of the eye, 

 free bleeding, cooling applications, physic and 

 mash diet will usually allay the evil; the tinc- 

 ture of opium is a good lotion. 



