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and generally with ill success. Some have used for this 

 purpose, chalk, salt, ashes, vitriol, and even pounded 

 glass; the effect of which is only to recall the inflamma- 

 tion previously attending it, and is utterly barbarous. 

 But when you are determined to kill or cure, I will tell 

 you of a remedy that is better and more certain to effect 

 the object, although it may seem to you as barbarous as. 

 the former. There is this consolation about it, it is of 

 less duration; and the very moment it has done its work 

 you can relieve the animal from further pain, and he en- 

 joys his sight again; and then again there can nothing 

 give pain to the eye itself, until it penetrates the cata- 

 ract. 



Cure. — ^'Fill the eye, by means of a quill, with strong 

 and newly slackened lime. Let it remain in the eye 

 until the film is worked up sufficiently to be removed 

 (which will be but a few minutes), then remove it, 

 together wath all the lime and dirt that may be in the 

 eye, by means of a piece of soft sponge, wet in sharp 

 vinegar. This kills the life of the lime at once, and 

 prevents it from doing further injury, and the film is off. 

 If this should create any inflammation, observe the above 

 rules — that is, wash often with cold water, occasionally 

 applying hen's oil, or any of the above, to prevent the 

 film from returning. 



There is still another species of blindness, which is 

 commonly known as being moon blind, which has never 

 been satisfactorily accounted for; it appears, however, 

 to affect the sight of the horse mostly in the night, and 

 its periodical returns has led many to suppose that it 

 was influenced by that planet; but I can see no good 



