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

11)0 The Management and Treatment of the Horse,
15 years, neither of them were cured, although bleeding,
medicine, the rowel and seton were tried, and from the
nature of the disease I have but little faith in all I have
read as to a cure having been effected in a single con-
firmed case of gutta serena or glass eye.
GENERAL BLINDNESS AND IMPERFECT
VISION.
No subject is of greater importance than the state
of the organs of vision of the horse, which ought to
occupy the first attention of a purchaser. Blindness or
a partial defect of the eyes often leads to many unpleasant
consequences to the proprietor, whether he is riding or
driving. It requires considerable knowledge of the
anatomical construction of the eye to enable anyone to
judge correctly of its perfection or defects ; and I am
sorry to say that not half of the members of the veteri-
nary profession pay due attention to the eye, and do not
make it so much of a study as should be devoted to it.
We have many disputes about the eye of the horse ; one
in particular occurred at a recent show at Islington,
where Professor Pritchard disqualified the winner of the
first prize in consequence of cataract in the eye. This
is one of the most difficult diseases of the eye for a
practical man to detect, and unless the practitioner is
himself blessed with good eyesight, and has been taught
by a thoroughly practical man how to stand, and how
to place the horse's eyes to the light, the chances are
that he will pass the horse as sound while it is in
fact suffering from imperfect vision. When living
in the neighbourhood of Hitchin, my employer had