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FR. BLAZEKOYIC. 
IHli AUGENBLENNORRHOE DER PFERDE UNI) JHRE 
FORMEN*. 
YON FR. BLAZEKOYIC. 
Translated from the Deutsche Zeitschift fur Thiermedicin. Vol 4, p. 429. 
Tlie worse than embryological condition of veterinary optlial- 
mology must be my excuse for offering to our readers an almost 
comp ete. translation of tlie paper in question, incomplete and 
wan mg in exact lmcro-patho-anatomy as it is, for, as tlie drown¬ 
ing man grasps at a passing straw to save bis life, so must we 
grasp every waif of knowledge which comes in our path, in the 
hope that an accumulation of such may end not only in a gradual 
completion of our knowledge, but may incite others, not to seek 
our literature and give us compilations of weekly errors and 
superstitions, but to endeavor to add some new facts by genuine 
We long to see the day when “our Keview ” shall contain 
contributions worthy of translation and recognition in other count¬ 
ries and among mediciners. Alas, when will the day come * Yet 
we have no reason to complain, for about all the matter of any 
scientific value in the Veterinary Journal, Britain’s leading review, 
Is 1 e our own, purloined from continental workers. We have had 
a perfect surfeit of “ transverse presentations,” regular and irreg- 
ular strangles and colics, of tetanus which ran out, and all such 
nonsense. 
The author of the above has been in his present position in 
nssia for about six years, and on entering upon his duties re- 
ceivei especia oiders from the authorities to give every attention 
to a peculiar and lethal opthalmic disease which caused immense 
pecuniary losses to breeders and horse owners in the district • he 
says^he carefully studied all accessible veterinary works upon 
* The Blennorrhce of the eyes of the horse and of its forms. 
