334 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



WHITE SPECKS AKD OLOUDIKESS OP THE EYE. 



These are tlie results of inflammation and if confined to 

 tlie transparent outer coat of the eye may usually be re- 

 moved by touching them daily with a feather dipped ia a 

 solution of 3 grs. nitrate of silyer in an ounce of distUled 

 water. Such an application should never be made while 

 the part is still inflamed and the eyelids swoUen and red, 

 as it will then be painful and injurious. It will usually 

 fail to remove the speck when that consists in a thick 

 cicatrix following an ulcer, or when red vessels are seen 

 running across it. 



ULCERS OF THE TEAJSrSPABENT COENEA. 



These also follow inflammation and are to be recognized 

 by the visible breaks or abrasions ia the surface layers of 

 the transparent coat of the eye. Apply the same agent as 

 for specks but of double or treble the strength, and improve 

 the general health by a liberal diet and a course of tonics 

 (sulphate of iron, nux vomica, cinchona). 



TUMORS OF THE TEANSPAEENT CORNEA. 



These, if not of a cancerous nature, nor connected with 

 the vascular colored curtain which encircles the pupil 

 (the iris), may be removed with the knife or scissors, the 

 part touched with a stick of nitrate of silver, and a lotior 

 like that used for simple ophthalmia appHed on a cloth. 



ENZOOTIC OPHTHALMIA IN CATTLE AND SHEEP. 



This affection attacks one or several herds or flocks in a 

 locality, at any season and without apparent cause, ex- 

 cepting proximity. The symptoms are those of simple 

 ophthalmia, but of a severe type, with much fever and 

 complete clouding of the eye from exudation into the 

 whole thickness of the transparent cornea, followed by 

 ulceration, and sometimes perforation of this membrane, 

 loss of the humors of the eye, and permanent blindness. 



Tnutmmt. Separate the sound from the diseased and 



