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be injected with a syringe gently into the eye., 

 three times a day : 



Take white vitriol in powder, one scruple ; 

 rose or common rain water, eight ounces ; 

 tincture of opium, sixty drops : mix them 

 together for use. 



It sometimes happens, that a more powerful 

 stimulant is required ; for which purpose, a little 

 common salt, very finely powdered, and thrown 

 into the eye once a day, will have an excellent 

 effect. A diuretic ball may be given every day, 

 for a week, and the fomentations of warm water 

 continued. 



If the eye-lids are only inflamed, it may arise 

 from cold; and there is a discharge of tears, which 

 sometimes becomes acrid. Sugar of lead, in the 

 proportion of one dram to a pint of rain water, is 

 the best application for this complaint, with occa- 

 sional bleeding, and diet of opening mashes. 



The eye of the horse is likewise subject to ca- 

 taract, or opacity of the crystaline lens, and to 

 gutta serena, or palsy of the optic nerve. The 

 latter may he discovered by the eye losing the 

 power of dilating, or contracting its pupil : this is, 



