186 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. 
“] plucked out thirty hairs with the forceps, and sent 
some lotion containing laudanum and zinc sulph. 
“In about a fortnight Isaw 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, I called to see the pup ; and found that the 
eye was much inflamed, and a fresh crop of hairs had grown. 
