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ON WORM IN THE EYE OF THE HORSE. 
hospital, and sure enough the worm was there, quite plain. But 
there was, in this case, only slight opacity of the cornea, and the 
worm distinctly to be seen. However, I did not operate, for I 
had been so unwell for the previous fortnight, that, in truth, I 
was not able. This worm had a marked difference in its appear¬ 
ance to any I had seen before. It was flat, the same length as 
usual, but the edges were fringed or saw-like : whether this arose 
from an unhealthy state of the worm I do not know, but imagine it 
did. On the morrow I did not visit the hospital at all. The farrier 
came to my house, and reported the horse’s eye much the same. 
I ordered the horse an alterative bolus, and visited the hospital 
on the following morning, and, to my utter astonishment, saw the 
worm at the bottom of the anterior chamber, dead. I immedi¬ 
ately ordered the horse on bran mashes, and gave him a mild 
dose of physic, which operated well. As I was too unwell to at¬ 
tend to my duty, I did not see the horse for three weeks, when 
the worm and all the opacity were completely removed. The 
horse had been treated with alterative medicine twice a-week after 
the setting of his physic. 
CASE III. 
I was called in by Major T , of the artillery at Dum Dum, in 
the month of September 1831, to examine his grey charger, 
which, as the groom reported, had his eye bad. I found this 
horse had worm in the near eye. I had the horse brought to my 
own stables, and immediately operated as in the first case,which 
did well. But the eye was not clear at the end of a month. 
The Major was very anxious to have the horse home, as the 
practice season (November) was coming on apace ; however, in 
two months after, the horse was perfectly free from any blemish. 
Now, why I send you this case is, its peculiarity; for, in the 
month of September 1832, I was again called in to the same 
horse, with worm in the off eye. In this case I proceeded as be¬ 
fore; the horse got well, and the eye completely clear in three 
weeks. 
I have selected these three cases out of eleven which occurred 
to me in my practice during my stay in India. I will now tell 
you why I punctured the eye in the centre instead of keeping 
as near to the sclerotic coat as I could; and that is, if you 
puncture as near the centre as you can, you are not in danger of 
wounding the iris. I have also seen several horses which have 
been operated on for the removal of worm in the eye; but I no¬ 
ticed, particularly, that whenever the puncture was made near 
the edge of the cornea, there was an opacity left to a greater or 
less degree. 
