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dent resulted from a kick 5 the eye-ball was hanging on the side 
of the cheek by the optic nerve, much extravasated blood and 
oedema ; seen one-half hour after injury ; fracture could be read¬ 
ily made out, as a fractured end of bone was protruding through a 
wound. The owner desired eye to be saved if possible. Opera¬ 
tion, performed under a warm spray of creolin solution, consisted 
in the removal of three pieces of bone, the suturing of the wound, 
the return of the eye-ball, after oiling it with almond oil and re¬ 
taining it in position by a stitch through both eyelids and sur¬ 
geon’s plaster reinforcing the sutures, a dressing of oil, iodoform, 
absorbent cotton, and a bandage. The patient made a complete 
recovery ; the only complication was a fistulous tract, from which 
was removed a spicnla of bone, which resulted from a slough of 
the fractured end of the process. After the animal had been 
discharged a month, was returned to have the injured eye ex¬ 
amined, and on examination a dislocated lens was found, which 
interfered more or less with vision. As the owner had noticed 
it for some weeks and the eye otherwise appeared normal, advice 
was given to return if animal showed pain or swelling. 
Case No. 6 . — Sti'abismus^ left eye, cocker spaniel, two years 
old. This condition, a very rare one in the lower animals, was 
very well marked, so much so as to disfigure an otherwise very 
handsome animal. The defect was said to be congenital. The eye 
wasturned outwardly, and the membrana nictitans at the in¬ 
ternal canthns protruded across the inner half of the eye. The 
operation consisted in rendering the eye aseptic and cocainized, 
and, with a pair of curved scissors, cutting the conjunctiva 
at the external canthns and, with a stitch holding the incision 
open, cutting the external’ rectus muscle. The operation was a 
success, straightening the eye, leaving the membrana nictitans 
in almost its proper position. A point to be remembered in 
surgery, where dogs are the subjects, is that the best antiseptic 
is creolin. Carbolic acid and corrosive sublimate are poisonous. 
Case No. 7.—Fsecal impaction ; mastiff, two years old. Ani¬ 
mal unthrifty, thin, with a voracious appetite. When brought 
owner said he had given several doses of cathartic medicine, 
