This occasionally happens from the bite of a larger dog. The eye is forced out of the socket, and the lid contracts around it, and prevents its return. If the accident has not occurred more than a few hours, a little patience and adroitness will accomplish the return of the eye, and with a fair chance of preserving the sight.

The part must be gently but well cleaned, and a small stream of warm water made 'to run on the eye, and the parts around, for more than a quarter of an hour. The object of this is to relax the muscles of the lids' and the cellular substance surrounding the eye. The blunt end of a small curved needle must then be dipped in olive-oil, and inserted between the edge of the eyelid and the parts on which it is powerfully contracting, and, having been removed once or twice for the purpose of being armed with more oil, it must be carried fairly round the eye, and between it and the lid.

A somewhat larger crooked needle is now to be taken, that the purchase may be greater. The blunt end must be introduced between the eye and the lid, about the centre of the upper lid, and the lid elevated with some degree of force, and attempted, by means of the curve of the needle, to be drawn over the eye, which, by a firm pressure on it with the moistened fingers of the other hand, is attempted to be pushed inward, and rather upward. In a great many cases this will be accomplished much more easily than would be deemed possible.

If the practitioner does not succeed with the upper lid, let him try the lower one, but let him not torture the animal too much. The pressure of the needle on the irritated conjunctival membrane causes extreme pain, which the dog plainly enough evinces.

If the return of the eye in this way is impracticable, the upper lid may be lifted once more at the centre, for it is there only that it can be got at, and with a pair of scissors, Snipped as deeply as possible. This will put an end to the muscular contraction of that lid, and enlarge the aperture, and the eye may now be returned without much difficulty. The eye having regained its place, the divided edges of the lid must be brought together and retained by two or three stitches inserted by means of a small straight needle and waxed silk. A great deal of inflammation is apt to follow this last kind of operation The eye had suffered severely enough before, and will not bear this new irritation.

It will therefore be a point of duty and humanity to consider, when more than five or six hours have passed since the accident, and the eye cannot be returned by the first method, whether the practitioner should not proceed to the