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T. W. TURNER. 
ease and where the most careful examination failed to discover 
any cause in or even change of food, housing or care in any way 
whatever, that the disease would suddenly appear in several 
animals in a very virulent form, running an exceedingly acute 
course, terminating frequently in blindness at the first attack. 
In this way I have seen four or five animals out of a band of 
seven or eight horses on one farm all previously sound and 
without hereditary taint, suddenly attacked with vurilent oph¬ 
thalmia ending in permanent blindness, the disease then van¬ 
ishing, leaving the sound animals perfectly well. In these cases 
all parts of the eye appear inflamed, tense and painful, the con¬ 
junctivas hyperaemic, the cornea opaque and the anterior cham¬ 
ber filled with lymph, pus or blood. Dr. Clement’s suggestion 
of infection in these cases is certainly worthy of careful consid¬ 
eration, as it may possibly explain them, which cannot be satis¬ 
factorily done by the theories advanced heretofore. 
To say the least, our accepted ideas as to the etiology of 
periodic opthalmia need revision. 
NEW REMEDIES IN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
By T. W. Turner, D.V.S., New York City, N. Y. 
A paper read before the Veterinary Medical Association of the County of New \ ork 
Since December last, when I had the honor of reading before 
the German Veterinary Medical Association of New York and 
Vicinity a paper on “New Remedies,” published at the time in 
the Journal of Comparative Medicine , the busy world of science 
has*not been at a standstill, for its motto is that of the celebrated 
Galileo —E pur si muove -—(and still it moves) and is constantly 
plunging forward into the larger spaces of light and knowledge. 
And though not many new therapeutical agents have been added 
to the actual list, our laboratories are filled with the hopes and 
promises of the future, and the anticipations of another year will 
be doubtless realized in the discovery of some new and valuable 
dditions to our pharmacopoeia, that will go far towards assuag- 
