GUTTA SERENA. 39 
The eye recently afflicted with gutta serena, or rather the eyes, (for 
this deprivation commonly affects both orbs,) is, to the uninformed 
inspection, perfect. The internal structures are in their proper places, 
and the pupil is beautifully dilated. A 
very little instruction, however, enables the 
spectator to distinguish between fixedness 
and dilatation. A trifle more tuition will 
point out that the pupil is not so dark as 
in the organ of the healthy animal: that it 
has an opaque milky cast, accompanied very 
frequently with a bright light-green shining 
through it, as though a piece of tinsel were 
within the posterior chamber. After gain- 
ing such information, probably the notion 
before expressed about beauty may be 
changed. Most things are most beautiful as nature formed them, and 
no little expression resides in the ever-changing dimension of the 
pupillary opening. 
AN EYE AFFECTED WITH GUTTA SERENA. 
THE MODE IN WHICH A HORSE, WHEN QUITE BLIND, PROGRESSES. 
The symptoms of blindness are equally pathetic and characteristic. 
The nostrils are constantly at work and the ears perpetually in motion— 
life is endeavoring, by exercising other senses, to compensate for the one 
lost. Then, the movements are peculiar. A blind man commonly 
