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OPHTHALMIA IN CATTLE. 
under the circumstances related, the fe circulation remaining 
undisturbed.” 
Dr. C. Searle, in his * Philosophy of Life and Health/ 
when treating of this complaint, makes the following just 
and excellent remarks : 
“ As I advocate in all cases attending strictly to nature’s 
indications, and as erysipelas in the severer forms develops a 
blistered surface — that is, blisters are formed on the skin — I 
am of opinion, that in all cases in which relief is not obtained 
by perspiration, which should be early induced, if possible, 
by the conjoint influence of calomel, antimony, opium, and 
the vapour or the tepid bath, after due evacuation of the 
bowels, and bloodletting if there should be much excite- 
ment — a blister should be applied, not immediately on the 
part inflamed, but in its vicinity ; the whole phenomena of 
the disease clearly evincing the presence of an acrid irritant 
in the blood, and a tendency to escape or pass off by the 
skin.” 
OPHTHALMIA IN CATTLE. 
By H. Webb, M.ILC.V.S., New Sampford. 
If you think the following brief description of, to me, a 
new disease, is worthy of being recorded in the pages of 
the Veterinarian , I shall be glad of its being inserted, as per- 
haps some of your readers maj^ have seen similar cases, and 
be able to enlighten others as to the cause. 
On the 27th August, I was requested to attend some, 
cows and weanel calves, at Mr. H. Smith’s, of Little Bard- 
field, which were the subjects of ophthalmia. The history 
of these cases is, that about six weeks previously, one of the 
cows was noticed to be suffering from inflammation of the 
eyes, and it being thought that it might probably proceed 
from an injury, little heed was paid to it. From that time 
till I saw them, several others became similarly affected, so 
that on my arrival I found fourteen out of seventeen calves, 
and eight out of ten cows, suffering from ophthalmia. 
They all had been kept in a low pasture ground during 
the day, where there was plenty of shade and good water. At 
night the calves were housed in a clean, well-ventilated 
place, and had given to them a small quantity of meal. The 
cows, however, after being milked, were again turned out to 
graze. 
