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

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io contact with, in the performance of which the animal
often injures the eye itself. The edges of the eyelids
should be anointed with the following ointment, which,
after two or three applications will invariably effect a
cure :— Hog's lard half an ounce, beeswax half an ounce,
nitrated ointment of mercury half an ounce.
WARTS.
These are ofttimes a troublesome thing on the eye-
lid, and indeed on any part of the horse. Many different
modes are resorted to to take them away, such as tying a
piece of silk tightly round them and allowing them to
rot off, but the quickest, most simple, and effective, is to
take a pair of sharp scissors and cut them off close to the
skin. Then touch the roots with nitrate of silver or
lunar-caustic, and they will heal up in a few days and
cease to trouble. They seldom come again when once
cut off and caustic is applied.
GUTTA SERENA.
This is another disease of the eye which happily is
not often met with, and exhibits itself by an extraordinary
dilation of the pupil, which becomes immovable and has
a bright glassy appearance. This is caused by a paralysis
of the optic nerve, or the surface of the retina, or what is
often called the mirror of the eye, occasioned by a deter-
mination of blood to the brain, and its consequent
pressure on the optic nerve thus destroying its functions.
Cures in this disease are very rare ;
indeed I doubt if any
well-authenticated cases really exist. Of the three cases
which have come under my observation during the past