INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 



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When the cloudiness or opacity of the cornea is tardy in being 

 removed, the eye should be stimulated daily with the following 

 collyrium : 



5 grains nitrate of silver, 

 1 ounce distilled water. 

 Apply by means of a feather or camel's-hair brush. 



If he must be used or kept in the sunlight, 

 the eye should be kept covered with a blue 

 cloth tied loosely over it. It is very important 

 to attend to any such form of local inflamma- 

 tion promptly ; not only treating properly, but, 

 if possible, take him from all work, since, if 

 neglected, or the inflammation aggravated by 

 heating the blood, the sight is liable to be de- 

 stroyed, or run into periodic opthalmia. It is 

 somewhat wonderful how much injury the eye 

 will recover from, when treated with any kind 



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FIG. 856. -Good meth- 

 Twenty years ago, when driving horses od of covering 



the eye. 



without reins was regarded as a great feat, in 

 training them to drive in this way, it was sometimes necessary to 

 use the whip very severely over the head, when the eye was lia- 

 ble to be struck, and so seriously 

 injured as to close it and make it 

 entirely white from inflammation 

 in a short time. Yet, in every 

 case, by bathing with cold water, 

 keeping in a dark place, and if 

 moved, keeping the eye covered 

 with a cloth, in a few days the 

 eye entirely recovered. 



Once, while training Gifford, 

 one of my old pair of trained horses, he ran incidentally against 

 the corner of a stair, striking the eye so severely as to instantly 

 destroy his power of sight; the eye was entirely closed, and red 

 with inflammation. In this case I simply kept the eye covered 

 with a cloth kept constantly wet with water, in which was tinct- 

 ure of aconite in the proportion of about 40 drops to half a pint 

 of water. There was entire recovery within a week. This mild 



FIG. 857. Reversed view of the above. 



