The horse and the war . not last long. Let me further catalogue the sickness. There is that ophthalmia to whichI have alluded. It is a serious trouble and on that account is causing anxietyboth inside and outside the Veterinary Service. The first sjrmptoms are what HORSES AND MULES IX SICKNESS lOI is known as conjunctivitis, a kind of inflammation of tlu membrane of theeye which causes watering of the affected eye or eyes. In lime an opaquefilm seems to settle over the iris, causing partial blindness. Sometimes totalblindness follows, and in that case the animal naturally loses much of hisusef
The horse and the war . not last long. Let me further catalogue the sickness. There is that ophthalmia to whichI have alluded. It is a serious trouble and on that account is causing anxietyboth inside and outside the Veterinary Service. The first sjrmptoms are what HORSES AND MULES IX SICKNESS lOI is known as conjunctivitis, a kind of inflammation of tlu membrane of theeye which causes watering of the affected eye or eyes. In lime an opaquefilm seems to settle over the iris, causing partial blindness. Sometimes totalblindness follows, and in that case the animal naturally loses much of hisusefulness. He might, when blind, be used for easy work at the bases, butin the majority of cases he has to be cast as being unserviceable. How to account for it and why it should show a tendenc\ to developare points not easy to determine. There was a form of ophthalmia amonghorses in the South African War, and the eye used to burst. The form inFrance is technically known as irido cyclitis, and the belief is fairly general. ,,-*>*• ,\>^ An operation in a Veterinary Hospital, The patient under chloroform. among our leading veterinary officers that it may be induced by a state of low?constitution, exposure, irregular exercise and errors in feeding. The affectedanimals show marked fear of the hght of day. If it is difficult to trace thecause there is also doubt as to whether the treatment at present in vogue willeffect a permanent cure. Causa sublata tolliteur effectus may be theadmirable motto of those experts who would first remove the cause inorder to banish the effects ; but it is not absolutely certain that the cause ofophthalmia is known. It is known, however, that animals fed in America on cotton seed developa similar condition, and one seems to have an impression rather than a con- 102 THE HORSE AND THE WAR viction that the imported draught horses and mules from America are moresubject to it than others. What happens in the Ophthalmia VeterinaryHospitals in France now
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