SECTION XIII— PART II 
THE EYE 
Inflammations. 
Conjunctivitis is rather rare but does occur in all 
varieties of animals, seldom however, to the extent that 
the specimen has to be sacrificed. So far as the daily 
reports can be relied upon we have had no epidemic 
inflammations of the eye. The parrots and monkeys are 
the onlj^ animals that can be handled enough for treat- 
ment, and in them the appHcations have not seemed very 
efficacious. Two cases of conjunctivitis and iritis have 
had a tuberculous basis and two other specimens have 
had tuberculosis in the eye. Two parrots had, in asso- 
ciation mth generalized tuberculosis, semisolid masses in 
the orbit which dislocated the bulb, thickened the lids and 
presented as yellowish granulating tumors under the 
conjunctiva; a Swainson's long-tailed jay {Calocitta for- 
mosa) had this lesion on both sides. The only case in 
a mammal concerned an Anubis baboon {Papio anubis) in 
which one eye had been enucleated, two weeks before 
death, for purulent ophthalmitis. The other eye became 
affected shortly after the extraction and the animal was 
killed; it was found to have caseous pneumonia. The 
tuberculous process had probably begun in the region of 
the optic nerve and involved the whole bulb. Secondary 
infection with pyogenic cocci had been superimposed 
upon the original process. Keratomalacia, encountered 
on a few occasions, mil be discussed by Doctor White. 
Iridocyclitis was found in a white browed guan 
{Penelope superciliaris) the notes of which are condensed 
as follows : 
The internal organs show nothing of value pathologically. The 
right eye shows moderate conjunctivitis and a marked thickening 
of the cornea vdth complete opacity. The lens is destroyed and the 
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