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together by closely placed interrupted sutures, and treated anti- 
septically, as an open wound, or the entire part closed by anti¬ 
septic dressings. If the latter is desired, and both eyes are in¬ 
volved, only one should be operated on at one time, leaving the 
other for use by the animal. The stitches may be removed 
from the fourth to the seventh day. Complete anaesthesia and 
cleanliness are essential to a successful operation. 
Blepharostenosis is a congenital malformation, where the 
opening to the eye is wanting or diminished in size, or the 
margins of the lids may unite from granulation of their sur¬ 
faces as a result of disease or injury, causing complete anylosis 
of the lids. 
Partial stenosis at the outer canthus is often seen in connec¬ 
tion with entropion. 
The treatment is similar, whether stenosis is partial, com¬ 
plete, or from adhesion by granulation. 
If complete, the skin and membrane must be divided be¬ 
tween the lashes from one canthus to the other, and the mucous 
membrane sutured to the skin with close, fine, interrupted su¬ 
tures, with a view of getting union of the membrane and skin 
with the least possible granulation. As the latter is liable to 
reunite the margins of the lids, as a further precaution, a suture 
may be placed through the skin near the centre of one or both 
lids, and the skin of the adjacent parts above or below, or both, 
to draw the upper lip up and the lower one down, so as to pre¬ 
vent contact of these margins until cicatrization is complete. 
I know of no operation that gives better results than those 
just described, and if carefully and skillfully done, the results 
are uniformly good. 
DIARRHOEA AND A NEW TREATMENT FOR SAME. 
By W. T. Campbell, V. S., Cincinnati, O. 
Diarrhoea in calves is something that every cattle breeder 
fears, and well he may, for although common among herded 
cattle, very little is known of it, and many are the calves we 
