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WORMS IN THE EYES OF OXEN. 
manner I have already described ; which done, the worm made 
its escape, and was if any thing both larger and longer than the 
one I have already given a description of. On making inquiry 
of the Troop Serjeant-Major, he informed me he had observed 
the eye to look dull and heavy for some weeks previous to its 
putting on the white appearance, (alluding to the effusion of 
lymph into the transparent cornea) which he observed came in 
the course of the night, it having been perfectly clear at the 
stable hour of the previous evening. 
He was subjected to the same after-treatment as the preced¬ 
ing case. In the course of five or six days the cornea began 
to clear, the effused lymph being from tiqie to time gradually 
removed, and on the 12th of March he was discharged with a 
speck on the cornea, q-t the place it w^as punctured, about the 
size of a pea or somewhat larger. 
On the 27th of May I found the opacity so much diminish¬ 
ed that it required a close examination to detect it. Had not 
the former case been of such long standing, I have every rea¬ 
son to believe I should have been equally successful in the 
treatment of that likewise. Unless the worm is extracted, the 
case invariably terminates in blindness. 
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lExtvacts? from HFoveign Sournal^. 
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WORMS IN THE EYES OF OXEN. 
Bi/ M. Chaignaud, Veterinary Surgeon at MontmoreaUy 
Charente, 
THIS disorder is so far from being novel that it caught my ob¬ 
servation in 1805, the year I quitted the Alfort College, since 
which time I have met with upwards of 160 cases of it, and have 
invariably treated it successfully, unless called in too late. 
In the Transactions of the Veterinary School at Lyons, for 
the medical year 1822-23, there is an account of a mule which 
was placed under the care of M. Boudgourd, Veterinary Sur¬ 
geon at Nisms, for a disorder very similar to the present one. 
One eye was affected, and two thread-like worms, seen floating 
in the aqueous humour, was extracted by puncture of the trans¬ 
parent cornea. Twenty days after the operation, all appeared 
