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The author is frequently consulted by ladies, because 

 their favorites' eyes run water. Silch is a consequence 

 of high breeding in some of the canine species ; and 

 being so, medicines of various kinds, by drying up the 

 secretion of the lachrymal gland, may at first appear to 

 do good, but must ultimately be fruitful of the most 

 serious injury. 



Ejection of the Eye. — The eye of the dog is 

 rather curiously situated, which, as the writer knows of 

 no author who has remarked on its position, he may as 

 well refer to in this place. The eye of man is situated 

 within a bony orbit, from which it cannot in the course of 

 nature protrude. The eye of the dog, also, has an orbit 

 partly formed of bone ; but as regards the ridge, which 

 in man supports and gives prominence to the eyebrow, 

 in the dog it is composed of ligament, as with animals of 

 the cat, pig, and other species. The reason of this ar- 

 rangement — the cause for composing part of the orbit of 

 ligament — is to allow the eye to protrude or to take its 

 place without and before the orbit. This position of the 

 eye is easily perceived, when a live specimen which has 

 confidence in man is examined upon the knee, and at the 

 same time the skull is inspected. The cause of this 

 peculiar situation of so important an organ, is to allow 

 the eye to possess telescopic properties ; because the dog 

 has the faculty of withdrawing the eye within, or rather 

 quite to the back of the orbit ; as any Avho have beheld 

 the animal in some stages of brain disease, or the last 

 stage of distemper, must, with their attention directed to 



