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ON WORM IN' THE EYE OF THE HORSE. 
muscles of the neck, I considered them a little rigid. Having a 
patient to attend some distance off, I did not see him again until 
5 p.m., when his jaws were nearly closed, his tail erect; in a 
word, every symptom of tetanus had appeared. I immediately 
applied a blister (composed of infusion of cantliarides and mus¬ 
tard) to the head and neck, and with great difficulty gave aloes 
jiv, nitre ^j* in a ball. 
24th. —1 find him much the same. Repeat the blister, and the 
ball in solution.—4 p. m., the medicine has began to operate, 
but the horse is rather worse ; on moving he evinces a great deal 
of pain. 
25th. —Medicine operating, but no better. Apply the blister as 
before. In the course of the evening he drank a little gruel, and 
felt inclined to eat a little hay, but could not. 
26th. —The horse better; eats a little grass, and drinks the 
gruel. The blister and ball repeated, as the physic was setting. 
21th. —Much the same. The blister and ball repeated. The 
same treatment was repeated for the tw r o following days, with 
slight advantage. 
30 th. —This morning, in walking him out, the fore and hind 
legs of the near side are thrown in a circuitous manner ; but hs 
sight is restored and the jaws relaxed. Treatment as before. 
31s£.—H orse a little better. The blister dressed with mild 
digestive ointment, and ball repeated. 
Sept. 1st to 3 d. — Similar treatment continued, when the 
horse was so much better, that upon the 4th he was able to walk 
home, the distance of three miles, and was turned out to grass ; 
and in the course of a month was sold to a respectable farmer of 
this neighbourhood, who rode him in the two following days 100 
miles. He has him still in his possession, and has hunted him 
several times this last season. 
ON WORM IN THE EYE OF THE HORSE. 
By Mr. G. Skeavington, V. S., Devonport , late V.S. to the 
Bengal Horse Artillery. 
This is, I believe, a disease wholly peculiar to India, for, 
previous to my going to that country, I never heard of it ; but 
from reading the valuable lectures of Mr. William Percivall, I 
did, while in India, inquire of several Arab merchants respecting 
the disease in Arabia : the disease however is not known either in 
