l82 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



forty-eight hours, and the socket daily dressed with the fol- 

 lowing liniment 



Glycerine . , i ounce. 



Acid Carbolic 5 minims. 



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 needless to add 

 that this operation ought always to be performed under 

 chloroform. 



HAIRY TUMOR ON THE CORNEA. 



An instance of this exceedingly rare occurrence is recorded 

 by Mr. J. M. Parker, M.R.C.V.S., Birmingham, in the " Veter- 

 inary 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. 



" I plucked out thirty hairs with the forceps, and sent some 

 lotion containing laudanum and zinc sulph. 



"Tn about a fortnight I saw the patient 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, 



