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Cast the horse. Impale both eyelids, each with one of the straight 
needles, and leave the assistant to tie the thread into loops. Through 
these loops the assistant places the fore-finger of each hand, and then 
looks toward his superior. The sign being given, the man pulls the 
eyelid asunder, while the surgeon rapidly grasps the straight knife and 
describes a circle round the globe, thereby sundering the conjunctival 
membrane. The knife is then changed, the small curved blade being 
taken. The assistant again makes traction, and the knife, being passed 
through the divided conjunctiva, is carried round the eyeball, close to the 
bone; the levator and depressor muscles are detached by this movement. 
The assistant again relaxes his hold; the operator relinquishing the 
knife, selects the curved needle. 
With this the cornea is transfixed. 
The thread is drawn through and is 
then looped. Into this loop the 
surgeon puts the fore-finger of his 
left hand, and giving the sign once 
more to his assistant, takes hold of 
the large bladed knife. Traction is 
made on all the loops. The curved 
knife is inserted into the orbit, and, 
with a sawing motion, is passed 
round the organ. The posterior 
structures are thereby divided, and 
the eye is drawn forth. 
The operation ought to be over 
in less time than five minutes; but Sraveparion “Ow TRE BYE: 
speed depends on previous prepara- 
tion. The assistant, during the operation, should rest his hand upon 
the horse’s jaw and face; sad accidents by that means are prevented ; 
but, above all things, he should be cool, doing just what is sufficient and 
no more. 
Some hemorrhage follows the removal of the orb; to stop it, inject 
cold water into the empty socket; should that have no effect, drive a 
current of air from the bellows upon the divided parts; if this be of no 
avail, softly plug the cavity with lint, bandage the wound to keep in the 
dressing, and leave the issue to nature. 
Such is the undisguised operation for extirpating the horse’s eye. 
The reader is confidently asked, whether a few months of miserable 
existence, with the certainty of a fearful death, are not dearly purchased 
at so great a suffering ? 
