The dog is frequently subject to pure inflammation of the eyes. He seeks the darkest places - he is continually closing his eyes when brought into the light. The conjunctiva] membrane, whether covering the eye or the eyelid, is intensely red; and when the eye is looked into from above there is a red shade, showing how soon the interior of this organ is affected in the dog. •

The praclitioner should bleed and purge (Recipe No. 1, p. 138), and cause the eyes to be diligently fomented with warm water, or decoction of poppy-heads.

The inflammation being a little subdued, cold applications will be most useful, and they should be resorted to in something like the following order. The wash for eyes (Recipe No. 12, p. 159) should be first used; to this, after a few days, should succeed a weak solution of goulard (in the proportion of a drachm of the goulard to a pint of water); and, the eye having considerably improved, the astringent wash (Recipe No. 11, p. 158) may wind up the treatment.

Inflammation of the eyes is more or less connected with some other diseases, and the practitioner forms a tolerably accurate opinion of the intensity of those diseases, and the probability of cure, by the appearance of the conjunctival membrane. In epilepsy the dog has little chance if the eye is very red; in pneumonia, and in distemper, he augurs badly if the conjunctiva is much injected; while he scarcely Fears any disease so long as the eye is clear, and of its natural colour.

Inflammation of the eye takes on a peculiar character in distemper. It is far more intense than when that organ alone is the subject of disease; it speedily runs to. ulceration, and that of the most dreadful character, and which quickly eats through the cornea and permits the aqueous humour to escape, while numerous fungous granulations spring from the edges of the ulcer.

The practitioner will not forget the state of the eye; he will touch the granulations with the lunar caustic, and endeavour, by the use of the proper means, to abate the inflammation; but his principal attention will be directed to the malady with which this affection of the eye is connected; and if he can subdue that - if the dog lives, and recovers his usual strength - the ulcer will heal, the cloudiness disperse, and scarcely a trace of all this mischief will be left behind.