REMOVAL OF A WORM FROM THE EYE OF A HORSE. 471 
so delighted with my nag, I tried him over a fold dike nearly three 
feet high, which he took ; but on landing on the opposite side, 
down he came, and reversed the order of the day. I crawled out 
from below him as well as I could ; but poor Highlander had only 
three legs to stand upon, the fourth one bending to the winds. It 
was requisite to destroy him ; and on examining the bony encase- 
ment which enveloped the lower pastern joint, it was smashed into 
a thousand fragments ; and the lower end of the pastern bone was 
also comminuted. The superior end of the nerve which had been 
divided was approaching to the inferior, by some inherent power 
of its own, as I counted upwards of twenty rings (similar to those 
in the hoof), as it were, following each other, in order to accom- 
plish their object — namely, re-union . 
REMOVAL OF A WORM FROM THE EYE OF AN 
ARAB HORSE. 
By Mr. W. Jeaffreson, Surgeon- Oculist. 
[The volumes of The Veterinarian contain several cases of 
the removal of a worm from the anterior chamber of the eye 
of the horse and the ox # — it has been extracted from that of 
the human being — it has been seen in considerable numbers in 
the eye of the fish ; and, strange to say, parasite as it is, it is 
preyed upon by other parasitesf. We, however, extract this 
case from The Lancet of the 5th of the last month, because 
it is recorded by a human surgeon, to whom we are at all 
times thankful for any assistance that he will lend us in effect- 
ing the improvement of our art — because he alludes to “ that 
strange and almost unaccountable symptom,” — a matter in 
dispute among us — “ a very great weakness in the loins,” ac- 
companying the existence of this worm ; and because his 
mode of operation somewhat differs from that adopted by any 
of our East Indian veterinarians. — Y.] 
A high bred Arab race-horse, in the possession of Captain 
Seton, Town-major of Bombay, when under training, was ob- 
served to become out of condition. The horse was dull and “ off 
its feed,” and had, what I have invariably observed, the strange 
and almost unaccountable symptom, of very great weakness in 
the loins. The eye affected was slightly weak and watery, but 
* Veterinarian vol. i, p. 75, 77, 114, 194, ancl 310; also vii, 196, 201. 
t Kirby’s Bridgewater Treatise, vol. ii, p. 354. 
