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Translations and Reviews of Continental 
Veterinary Journals, 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Annales cle Medecine Veterinaires , February, 1862. 
MATTER TO SERVE EOR THE STUDY OF THE ANATOMY OF 
SPECIFIC OPHTHALMIA AND CATARACT IN THE HORSE. 
By Dr. Sichel. 
1st. The memoir of MM. Biervliet and Van Rooy, inserted 
in the Annales d’ Oculistique, recalled to my memory numerous 
dissections made by me in the years from 1837 to 1841, I 
being then much engaged with the operation for cataract, 
consequent on specific ophthalmia, in the eye of the horse, 
and more especially with the anatomical alterations which are 
produced by this affection. Many horses were brought to 
me by veterinary surgeons for my inspection, and on them I 
operated with their concurrence whenever affected with 
cataract. 
I found the operation to be always very difficult on account 
of the ocular muscles, which cause the eye to retract with 
sudden violence, anaesthetics not being then known. A great 
many eyes were also brought to me from the slaughterers, 
which were taken from horses that had been killed on account 
of blindness caused by specific ophthalmia. The number of 
eyes I have thus dissected amounts to more than sixty. T he 
observations which I have collected constitute the type of all 
the principal alterations produced by specific ophthalmia. 
Other labours, principally the publication of my ' Iconogra- 
phie Ophthalmologique,’ prevented me from pursuing this in¬ 
teresting subject; but as two gentlemen most competent have 
taken the question up, although from a different side, if I am 
permitted to offer these “ matters ” in their imperfect state to 
the Annales d*Oculistique , perhaps the learned authors of 
the above-cited memoir may find some dates which, by being 
verified by further clinical and pathological researches, might 
be useful to them, and these sheets will at the same time con¬ 
tribute to the elucidation of the anatomy of cataract and the 
detachment of the retina. 
The anatomical preparations, designated by numerous, in 
my collection, have been preserved in diluted alcohol. Those 
which might l^e of interest to the authors of the c Memoir’ 
