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vessels may be observed, followed by moderate exudation-pannus. 
The intra corneal exudat, when circumscribed, gives rise to kera¬ 
titis aposteinatosa; the pus from the same either suffers meta¬ 
morphosis and absorption, or penetration of the cornea takes 
place. Cicatrization of the corneal ulcers—keratitis ulcerosa— 
sometimes takes place, or penetration and prolapsus iridis comes 
to pass. 
A very frequent complication is the development of bulla and 
pustulse upon the cornea, which either suffer resorption or rup¬ 
ture, giving occasion to prolapsus iridis. Non-transparency of the 
cornea from coagulated exudate, deformity of the iris, cloudiness 
of the corpus vitreum are frequent occurrences, while cataract 
comes only seldom to observation. 
OPHTH ALMO-BLENNOR RHCE. 
This disturbance attained quite a notoriety for its pest like 
eruption among the horses of the French army invading Egypt 
in 1798, and received the name “ Opthalmie militaire contcigi- 
euse .” Later investigations demonstrate the same to be nothing 
more than an excessively severe form of blennorrhce. JVly expe¬ 
rience leads me to consider the same as a most threatening dis- 
ease of the eyes of the horse. Shortly consequent to the action 
of the irritant, oft within a very few hours, the most extensive 
complications of the eye appear which previously seemed entirely 
healthy, but the blepharo-blennorhoe, which continues for a longer 
or a shorter time, may suddenly be observed to have become 
generalized to an ophthalmo-blennorrhoe or ophthalmia. If we 
carefully review the various veterinary ophthalmic works, we 
find many pathic processes described which bear more or less 
relation to ophthalmo-blennorrhoe; Strauss, Hertwig, Haubner, 
Veitli, et al., all describe phenomena of the same, and describe 
the pathic processes with varying exactness, yet never as an 
ontogenetic disturbance, but always as a participating phenome¬ 
non of different internal and external complications of the eyes. 
This circumstance has undoubtedly given occasion to many diag- 
