US VETERINARY 



If the external parts of the eye are wounded, 

 the wound must be treated in the same manner 

 as directed under the article Wounds. 



Of the Membrane Nktatans. 



NATURE, in forming the eye of the horse, 

 seems to have been aware of uie many accidents 

 to which it would be liable, and has providentially 

 provided for its security, by the addition of a 

 muscle to draw it back into the socket, and by 

 having furnished it with a cartilaginous substance 

 at its inner canthus, which he can at pleasure, or 

 when apprehensive of danger, thrust out, so as 

 nearly to cover the whole of the eye. 



This sabstance is commoniy called the Haw ; 

 and, until very lately, has been considered as a 

 preternatural enlargement, which has been attri- 

 buted to different diseases ; and, of course, has 

 been by most authors directed to be dilsected 

 away, to the evident injury, if not tote' iofs of the 

 eye, and by that means destroying one of the best 

 harriers which Nature had formed forks presevva- 



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