. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. a blue cloth tied loosely over it. It is very im-portant to attend to any such form of local inflammation promptly ;not only treating properly, but, if possible, taking him from all work,since, if neglected, or the inflammationaggravated by heating the blood, thesight is liable to be destroyed, or runinto periodic ophthalmia. It is some-what wonderful how much injury theeye will recover from, when treatedwith any kind of care. Twenty years ago, when drivinghorses without reins was regard
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. a blue cloth tied loosely over it. It is very im-portant to attend to any such form of local inflammation promptly ;not only treating properly, but, if possible, taking him from all work,since, if neglected, or the inflammationaggravated by heating the blood, thesight is liable to be destroyed, or runinto periodic ophthalmia. It is some-what wonderful how much injury theeye will recover from, when treatedwith any kind of care. Twenty years ago, when drivinghorses without reins was regarded as a great feat, in training them to drive in _ „„„ „ ^ ...,^ . ^ Fig. 900.—Reversed View of the this way, it was sometimes necessary to Above. use the whip very severely over the head, when the eye was liable to be struck, and so seriously injured as to close it and make it entirely white from inflammation in a short time. Yet, in every case, by bathing with cold water, keeping in a dark place, and if moved, keeping the eye covered with a cloth, in ?. few days the eye entirely .SPECIFIC, OJi FERIODIC, UPIITIIALMIA. 583 Once, while training Gifford, one of my old pair of trainedhorses, he ran accidentally against the corner of a stair, striking theeye so severely as to instantly destroy his power of sight ; the eyewas entirely closed, and red with inflammation. In this case I sim-ply kept the eye covered with a cloth kept constantly wet withwater in which was tincture of aconite in the proportion of about40 drops to half a pint of water. There was entire recovery withina week. This mild preparation has proved for mc very efficient inreducing local inflammation. Specific, or Periodic, Ophthalmia, is the most severe affection to which the horses eye is liable, and is very common in this coun-try. The parts principallyand primarily involved arethe internal structures ofthe eye, and the changeswhich occur vary in degreeaccording to the severityof the attack
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