FUN 
t@oncer ning this for mutable difeafe, by referring to the fecond 
Yolume of fome Differtations on Inflammation,” by 
John ‘Burns, (fee page 302, on Spongoid Tnflammation) 5 
ay ee Hey’ 3 Prattical Obiepretions in ee be : 
2335 -Abernethy’s « Surgical Obfervations,” publi 
ee - 513 and, in particular, “« Obfervations on fiw 
see ee by James Wardrop, printed 1809. 
Ae 
_ Fusevs Ocul, in Veterinary Science, a name given by t 
fome of the Writers on the difeafes of horfes to a diftemper 
of the eye, to wh i The fir 
ich he animal alone is 
author who has comm nicate an obfervation - of this difor- 
der to the world is Dr L 
tions, 
ower, in the. Philofophical T Tranfac- 
He obferves, chat horfes alone are fubje& to it, and 
-eails it a fpungy excrefcence of - uvea; it is commonly of 
a dark mufk-colour, and grows out of the edge of the 
uvea, and though of little” eat eee. in its firit ftages, 
yet if it grows very large, or if the number of the ca 
fey it weakens and obftruéts the creature’s fight, an 
i yea 18 a mufeular 
part, and 1 dilate or contract itfelf in a 
ag manner for the admiffion of objects with as muc 
ight as the eye.can bear, fo that the reer the light is 
to which eye ‘is expol fed, the more this membrane is con- 
tracted into a narrow compafs, and the more dark the place 
This fudden change, 
€ more conveniently {een 
il, lefs degree. 
edge of this coat be loaded with a ~~ large excrefcence of 
this kind, orif feveral, though maller, grow all round it, 
a. muft sieeuel ad that the pupil, or fight, is very 
uch if n ally obftruéted, and the animal fees ver 
it me or i ll. The horfes of this kind are very 
ill furnifhed for feeing in the funfhine, but do ve ry we Win 
days, or inthe dufk of the morning or evening, when 
de difeafe is not too violent. Itis obfervable, that w 
thefe fungufes grow in the eyes of young horfes, they be- 
come much fmaller when they are taken to dry meat in the 
ftable, and increafe again when they are turned out to grafs. 
Whether this be owing to the difference of dry and moi 
i is not eafy to determine hae it is moft pro aa owing 
to the difference of L paae the horfe at grafs, being 
ce ed to o carry its hea pes than thofe which feed 
in the sae Th ico fn ng ules sar are e fiz ed the upper 
tracted, and mfg the Nghe aa fo much obftruéted. 
“Phil. Tranf. N° 
FU IKEDY, in Geography, a town of Africa, in 
Kaarta ; 4° miles N. 0 ng nmoo. 
; 5 » Unmbilicals, in meer iia iy 
tts of two arter 
a quantity of gelatinous fubftance. See Em- 
wis [Bnbiicalis, cd op snk of, in Midwi ifery, is when 
ee the navel ftring defcends into the vagina, befo 
‘the prefenting part of the child. It fometisnes happen s, that 
FUN 
ens ina natural labour, or 
when the breech of the fostus hes over the os uteri, as ie er 
orbreech, by their fize and of 
a. pelvis, generally prevent any othe: body pat entering 
he paflage with them. When, however, the funis is of ‘an 
extra ordinary length, it will fometimes enter the ne before 
the cr breech of the child, and confequently precede 
a egleCted, and the labour fuffered to 
go on, the funis willbe gradvally thrust down by the pains, un- 
til it frees the external orifice of the vagina, and becoming 
cold, the blood in the veffels will bec ia dere the circulation 
ftopped, and the life of the child extir 
this acci eae neon have recomme1 
vied mare the funis 
f the fanis ina i 
But thefe me- 
obfe shia ave rar ely been found 
in a bag 
o r. Denman ge 
to fue ceed: (fee hi 
wifery, 4to. p. 559,) the funis generally following the hand, 
hen it is witharawn, or coming down with the fo owing 
pains. If we are called i in late, and the funis has been down 
{fo long that the life of the child is de eftroyed, or if the child 
was dead before the Sea areas of labour, (2 and in ei- 
ther a we ma ay know 
nen rag, or 
ds, 
et 
 & 
co ondud in the ne manner as if t aa liad nat pre- 
fi re ia t will not occafion any impediment to the birth. 
That is > 
to be the part prefenting, the woman i 
and the child fuffered me 1 
offers, giving onl 
Natural Lanovr, Breecn, or Feet T pr is hae a pig fee. 
We fhould be particularly careful, in this cafe conceal 
the mother the death of the child, or aie 
ot hare 2 eae her, might dam put 
tal {to e pains, and thence materially retard the la. 
a our, or é Eee: habits, occation flooding, or convulfions. 
On the other hand 
For the was of doing 
But e head of the 
child be too far advanced in the pelvis, before we are called 
e 
to make this practicable, or fafe, ‘ 
ft content ourfelves. 
. with keeping the a in ae vagina, to prevent its contract. 
i 
cold, and as far out of the way of preffur 
to prefs upon the e 
Should remain there, Tittle ee by the pains we ma 
them, and — ate the birth by ufing the lever, or the 
forceps. ver, perhaps, ‘ail, generally. fpeaking, be 
mott advifeable in this cafe, as lefs likely to prefs or injure 
e funis, more eafy in its application, and more fpeedy im 
one the cna effect 
Funis Crepitans. See Cissus. 
ee MELAsTOMA. 
e 
TiS» e UVARIA. 
Oe. See MENISPERMUDM. 
Fuxs 
