The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 187
most likely to relieve it, after which use some exciting
means to give energy to the absorbents, and for this
purpose nothing is better than corrosive sublimate in
solution, two grains in an ounce and a-half of water will
be found quite strong enough. This should be syringed
into the eye twice or three times a day. If opacity of
the lens has taken place we are not aware of anything
that will remove it, indeed it is a given fact amongst the
veterinary surgeons of note that no cure has been found,
yet it is always advisable to call in the aid of the veteri-
nary surgeon in diseases of the eye, for although they
are few in number they are of vital consequence, as the
least mistake in the treatment terminates in total blind-
ness.
THE HAW.
It is not an unusual thing for a thickening of this
part of the eye to take place, and protrude on the fore
part of the eyeball ; in this disease the retractor muscle
pulls back the eye to protect it from the irritating effect
of the light, and the thickening of the haw pushes it
forward, and in consequence of the adjacent parts being
thickened no retraction can take place. In former times
the old veterinary surgeons used to cut out the haw of
the eye, but that cruel, useless, and absurd practice is
now abandoned by the enlightened veterinary surgeon,
who knows the use of the haw of the eye of the horse,
and allows Nature's handiwork to remain intact. Nature
evidently intended the haw of the eye to protect the eye
from dust and insects. The horse has no hands to take
out dust or insects that may get into the eye, so Nature