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horse sto II be kept warmly clothed, and his diet 

 mashes, with gentle exercise. 



If the horse is affected with common worms, the 

 above course of physic will be found equally effi- 

 cacious for their destruction. 



Diseases of the Eyes. 



IN speaking of the eyes, we shall only take no- 

 vice cf those diseases which it is in our power to 

 remove ; as we consider that a description of those 

 which are incurable must not only be tedious, but 

 also uselefs to the reader. 



As there is scarcely any accident to which the 

 horse is incident, which takes so much from his 

 value as the lofs of one or both eyes ; so we shall 

 endeavour, after pointing out the cause and effect, 

 to lay down such methods of cure as we have ever 

 found most advantageous. 



Wren the eye of the horse becomes injured by 

 a violent Wpw, bite, &c. we first perceive the eye- 

 lids become inflamed, and often lymph is extra- 

 yasated into the anterior chamber, or fore-part of 

 the eye; soon after the veisels of the cornea, or 

 puter part of the giooe of the eye, become ob~ 



