EYES. • 59 



Observe, — There are many horses with extreme flat 

 foreheads, the bones, seemingly pressing upon the lower 

 portion of the brain, just where the optic nerve is given 

 out to the eyes. These flat-headed (that is in front of 

 the head) horses, I have observed to go blind about the 

 seventh year of their age. Blindness arising from such 

 a cause, may justly be laid at the door of hereditary 

 causes. Breeding from blind mares should, therefore, 

 be, as a rule, avoided. If a mare from accident become 

 blind, there are no scientific reasons why she should not 

 be used for breeding purposes. What is to be observed 

 is not to breed from a mare that has a very flat forehead, 

 and has not gone blind from accident or injury to the 



eye. 



(2.) Floating Spots in the Eye. — Sometimes dark 

 cloudy spots or specks will be seen floating in the eye, 

 more or less movable, rising and falling, as the eye itself 

 moves. If they are unattended with weakness of the 

 eye, or the spots are not fixed, and dark, indicating the 

 commencement of the disease named above, they will be 

 no great injury. 



Caiises.—Some constitutional disturbance, over driving, 



or hard work. 



Treatment— Inject, or apply cold water several times 



in the day. 



(3.) Iritis. — Inflammation of the iris. 



Causes.— Gold and exposure, producing rheumatism 

 in that portion of the eye. 



5?/mpiowiS.— Bedness of the eye, and muddy color of 

 the cornea. The iris is a little changed in color. 



Treatment— The application of moist poultices to the 

 eye for a few days to allay inflammation, or irritation. 

 Then apply three times daily, with a small brush called 



