1 86 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



It is occasionally necessary, where there is fungoid 

 disease, with adhesion, to dilate the canthus. This should 

 be done from the outer one. 



It is advisable to keep the patient in a dark place after 

 the operation, until all symptoms of inflammatory action 

 have subsided, and on moderate diet. It is almost need- 

 less to add that this operation ought always to be per- 

 formed under chloroform. 



HAIRY TUMOUR ON THE CORNEA. 



An instance of this exceedingly rare occurrence is re- 

 corded by Mr. J. M. Parker, M.R.C.V.S., Birmingham, 

 in the Veterinary Journal for April, 1877 : 



"In June, 1875, a setter puppy, three months old, was 

 brought to me for advice about one eye^ — the left — which 

 was discharging a considerable quantity of muco-purulent 

 matter. On washing the eyelids, and carefully examining the 

 eye, I found that the whole of the eye-ball was covered 

 with long black and white hairs (the puppy was black and 

 white) spread out like a fan. 



" With some trouble, I fixed the eyelid, and found that 

 the hairs grew from a warty substance as large as half a pea 

 on the cornea, at the posterior part of the eye, near the 

 eyelid, but not connected with it. 



" I plucked out thirty hairs with the forceps, and sent 

 some lotion containing laudanum and zinc sulph. 



" In about a fortnight I saw thepatient again, and he was 

 reported as having improved considerably. This I found 

 to be the case ; and I removed a few more hairs — twelve or 

 fourteen, perhaps. He was not brought to me afterwards, 

 but I heard from his owner that all pain and discharge had 

 ceased. Having occasion to pass the owner's house in Sep- 

 tember, 1875, 1 called to see the pup ; and found that the 

 eye was much inflamed, and a fresh crop of hairs had grown. 



