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enlargement, it may not be easily retracted. To the 

 ignorant observer it would seem to be an injury, and 

 a nuisance to the eye. When the general inflamma- 

 tion is abated, it will become of its natural size and 

 return to its place of concealment. If the practitioner 

 cuts it away, he may give a little relief by the bleed-, 

 ing which will follow; but he would give a great deal 

 more if he had scarified the eyelid, or opened the 

 angular vein ; and he would not have deprived the 

 horse of the means of defending his eye from the dust 

 of the roads. He would not by scarification have 

 prevented the animal wiping away the dirt when it 

 gets into the eye ; or have entailed upon the horse a 

 degree of suffering of which the pain that a man feels 

 under similar circumstances will give but a faint idea. 

 The haw is no unnatural excrescence; it is a very 

 useful part, enlarged by sympathizing with the general 

 disease. 



After a great deal of trouble, perhaps the eye gets 

 better; but there remains a cloudiness about it, and 

 of a very singular character. It is thick to-day, and 

 . may seem to be clearing up to-morrow : on the third 

 day, however, it often becomes more opaque than 

 ever, and at length is in a manner fixed. 



The cautious practitioner will pay small attention 

 to the local affection ; his chief endeavour being di- 

 rected to eradicating the disease from the system, 

 which the cloudy eye testifies is not yet accomplished. 

 He will again resort to constitutional measures. He 

 will give doses of colchicum, or such tonics or altera- 

 tives as the case seems to require, only bathing the 

 affected eye with some cold spring water, to every 



