3^6 COMPENDIUM OF THE VETERINARY ART. 



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When the eye itself is wounded, so that the 

 humours, as they are termed, run out from tlie 

 wound, bhndness must be the consequence. 

 But if the surface of the transparent part or 

 glass of the eye be slightly scratched only, and 

 tlie whole surface or part of it become opaque, 

 or have a.Jilin as it is commonly termed in con- 

 sequence, such opacity is often removed by 

 throwing under the eyelid some stimulating 

 powder, such as salt. If this fail, a little finely 

 levigated glass, mixed with honey, may be 

 put under the eyelid, by which it will soon be 

 didu3ed over the surface of the eye. In these 

 cases, however, such applications are not to be 

 used, until the violent inflammation, which the 

 accident occasions has abated. Among the 

 various diseases of the eye described by writers 

 on farriery there is one, wiiich they term 

 vioonblindnesSj from it's supposecf periodical re- 

 currence, I'his complaint is considered in- 

 curable, perhaps justly ; but I have little doubt 

 that it might be prevented. When the ,eye 

 becomes in darned from an internal cause, and 

 the inflammation is allowed to exist for any time, 

 a weakness of the part is the consequence; and 

 though the inflammation be removed, the 

 iKcakness will continue. But if the causes which 



