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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



If there is any foreign matter in the eye, remove it promptly,, 

 which can be done either by means of a feather or a pair pf forceps. 

 The eye should be fomented with tepid or warm water, and the 

 horse kept in a darkened stable or loose box ; next, the eye may be 

 kept constantly moist by means of a sponge or cloth wet with tepid 

 or cold water, and applied over the eye ; or bet- 

 ter, Goulard's extract, used in the proportion of 

 1 drachm to a pint of water. If accompanied by 

 great pain, the following lotion should be applied 

 around the eye several times a day : — 



Watery infusion of opium 1 oz. 



Goulard's extract 4 oz. 



Water - ; 12 ozi 



;.%msa When the cloudiness or opacity of the cornea 



is tardy in being removed, the eye should 



be stimulated daily with the following collyr- 



ium :■. — 



Nitrate of silver. .........'. .5 gr. 



Fig. 809.— Good Melh- Distilled water. '.'-, ... 1 oz. 



Uie&re" 8 Apply- by means of a feather or camel's-hair 



brush. : ' . • 



If he must be used or kept in the sunlight, the eye should be 

 kept covered with a blue cloth tied loosely over it. It is very im- 

 portant to attend to any such form of local inflammation promptly; 

 not only treating properly, but, if possible, taking him from all work, 

 since, if neglected, or the inflammation 

 aggravated ,by heating the blood, the 

 sight is liable to be destroyed, or run 

 into periodic ophthalmia. It is some- 

 what wonderful how, much injury the 

 eye will recover from, when treated 

 with any kind of care. 



Twenty years, ago, when driving 

 horses without reins was regarded as 



a great feat, in training them to drive in - „™ „ 

 , ? . f Pro. 900.— Reversed View of the 



this way, it was sometimes necessary to Above. 



use the whip very severely over the head, 



when the eye was liable to be struck, and so seriously injured as to 



close it and make it entirely white from inflammation in a short 



time. Yet, in every case, by bathing with cold water, keeping in a 



dark place, and if moved, keeping the eye covered with a cloth, in a 



few days the eye entirely recovered. 



