cause adhesion to the edges of the upper and lower lids and to mat
together the eyelashes in bundles. This gradually decreases to the
natural amount, and the redness and congested appearance of the eye
disappears, but swelling, thickening, and stiffness of the lids may
continue for a time. There may be more or less fever according to the
violence of the inflammation, but so long as there is no serious disease
of the interior of the eye or of other vital organ, it is usually
moderate.

The local treatment consists in astringent, soothing lotions (sugar of
lead 30 grains, laudanum 2 teaspoonfuls, rain water--boiled and
cooled--1 pint), applied with a soft cloth kept wet with the lotion, and
hung over the eye by tying it to the headstall of the bridle on the two
sides. If the mucous membrane lining of the lids is the seat of little
red granular elevations, a drop of solution of 2 grains of nitrate of
silver in an ounce of distilled water should be applied with the soft
end of a clean feather to the inside of the lid twice a day. The patient
should be removed from all such conditions (pasture, faulty feed,
exposure, etc.) as may have caused or aggravated the disease, and from
dust and irritant fumes and gases. He should be fed from a manger high
enough to favor the return of blood from the head, and should be kept
from work, especially in a tight collar which would prevent the descent
of blood by the jugular veins. The diet should be laxative and
nonstimulating (grass, bran mashes, carrots, turnips, beets, potatoes,
or steamed hay), and any costiveness should be corrected by a mild dose
of raw linseed oil (1 to 1-1/2 pints). In cold weather warm blanketing
may be needful, and even loose flannel bandages to the limbs, but heat
should never be sought at the expense of pure air.

(2) In inflammations due to local irritants of a noninfective kind a
careful examination will usually reveal their presence, and the first
step must be their removal with a pair of blunt forceps or the point of
a lead pencil. Subsequent treatment will be in the main the local
treatment advised above.

(3) In case of infective inflammation there will often be found a prick
or tear by which the septic matter has entered, and in such case the
inflammation will for a time be concentrated at that point. A round or
conical swelling around an insect bite is especially characteristic. A
snake bite is marked by the double prick made by the two teeth and by