10 A Treatife on Farriery. and fometimes is eminent and unequal. In the opake cornea, it feldom appears at all, or at most very little, on account of the white colour of the membrane of the conjunctive. There are feveral cicatrices of the cornea, but especially thofe of the tranfparent cornea oppofite to the pupil which diminish the fight. Thofe are very fuperficial, hurt the fight but little; but those that lie deeper may entirely deprive the horfe of vifion. Since thefe are altogether incurable, whatever fome pretend, I fhall fay no more about them. There is a fpot in the eye that is caufed by a humour which is congefted between the coats of the eye when this hardens, the fpot is formed. Sometimes they are no bigger than a grain of millet feed, and when they are larger, they never fpread farther. If they fhould chance to ulcerate, it may be readily healed with the powder of Florentine orris and fugar candy; or with the fapphire coloured water of the fhops. The leucoma or albugo is a white fuperficial spot on the tranfparent cornea, which hurts the fight while it continues. It may be diftinguished from a cicatrix, which is white and fhining, by its being of a dull whitenefs like chalk. It is likewife attended with a flight fluxion, a fmall inflammation and pain, and happens without any precedent ulcer. It may likewife be known from an ulcer, because in this there is a folution of continuity, and in an albugo there is none. When this diforder has continued a long while, an ulcer of the cornea may be apprehended, which leaves a cloud after it is healed that will never difappear. But hile it is recent, it may be re Some take it off with the gall of a pike or partridge, or the juice of celandine; and if these are too fharp, they must be mixt with a little of the folution of gum tragacanth: or you may take a fheet of paper, and make it up like a funnel; then fet fire to the wide end of it, and as it burns, a fmall quantity of oil will defcend to the narrow part: apply a drop of this to the fpot with a feather, fiift diluted with fpittle. Some use the oil of box in the fame manner. Half an hour after the ufe of any of thefe, the eye must be washed with water mixt with a little braudy, and the medicine muft not be applied again till the next day. The following liniment is excellent in this cafe, which must be applied with a foft feather to the spot. Take half a dram of myrrh, five grains of camphire, and as much of the white vitriol: rub thefe together with two drams of honey and as much fennel water as will bring them to the confiftence of a foft liniment. Or you may make a powder of Florence orris, myrrhe, and fu gar-candy, half a dram of each; and fifteen grains of white vitriol. A little of this may be blown up the noftrils with a quil. When the fpot is vanished, you must complete the cure with the eye water mentioned in the fection of fuperficial ulcers. Films are to be removed in the fame manner. When the albugo is obftinate, make use of the powder with glafs, mentioned below. The haws, or pterygium is a fleshy excrefcence, which generally begins in the greater angle of A Treatise on Farriery. II hold of the membrane with a fmall fine hook, and cutting off fo much of the caruncle as looks of the eye and in procefs of time extends itfelf like a wing along the conjunctive, as far as the outward circle of the iris. Some-moift or fpongy, with part of the times it reaches no farther than the corner of the eye in which it was bred. When it is recent and fmall, it will fometimes yield to remedies, particularly the following powder : Take of cuttle-fish bone a fcruple; of glafs ten grains; of white vitriol fifteen grains; of Florentine orris half a dram; of fugarcandy a dram : reduce thefe, efpecially the glafs, into very fine powder. Blow fome of this on the haw three or four times a day with a quil, and wash the eye, half an hour each time, with water mixed with a little brandy. The glafs ferves to cut and excoriate the furface of the haw, to give way for the fluid contained in its veffels; and to excite at the fame time a flight fuppu. ration, as well as to procure a paffage for the other remedies. Some make a powder with equal parts of fugar-caudy and chryftal. The following collirium is likewife good for this purpose: Take of verdigrease a scruple ; of Roman vitriol calcined to a redness fixteen grains; borax and pumice stone, of each twelve grains; of fugar-candy a dram: mix them with four ounces of the juice of celandiue, in which a little gum arabic has been diffolved. Apply a little of this with a feather five or fix times a day, firft fhaking the vial. When a haws covers part of the eye, there is a ligament runs along the verge of it that becomes horny like a griftle, which binds of compreffes the eye. In this cafe, and likcwife when the diforder will not yield to other medicines, we must come to manual operation; this is performed by taking membrane and griftle that makes a preffure on the eye, This done, drefs it with honey of rofes. But if after this the eye continues very moift, fo as to be like to breed proud flefh, it will be proper to blow in equal parts of burnt allum and double refined fugar twice a day. In fome cafes it might be touched with blue vitriol to keep down the flesh. OF BRUISES AND WOUNDS OF THE EYE. A HORSE is very liable to blows upon, and bruifes of the eyes; and yet they are feldom fo dangerous as might be apprehended: for fometimes an accident of this kind will make the horny coat of the eye turn quite white, and yet they will come to themselves in a few days, only by bathing it with cold fpring water, by the help of a fponge, four or five times a day. Or, Take a quarter of an ounce of dried white roles, and pour thereon a pint of boiling water; when it is cold diffolve in it a fcruple of white vitriol, and the fame quantity of the fugar of lead, for eye water. When the eye is fwelled or inflamed, it will be proper to bleed the horse, and bathe it with the above eye-water. When the cafe is bad, beat a dram of rock alum with the whites of two eggs, till they turn to a kind of curd; fpread this upon a pledget, and bind it gently over the eye, renewing it when it is dry. Or lay conferve of rofes on a cloth, and apply it in the fanie manner. When the eye is naturally good, and has not been harraffed with improper applications, it may be B 2 recovered, A 12 A Treatife on Farriery. recovered, though the cafe is feemingly defperate. For intance, when there is a definction on the eye, or the eye-lids are fwelled and moift, or the eye is inflamed, or if fo full of anguifh that the horfe will not or cannot open it, then ftronger application may be made ufe if the alum curd will not alone. of, damage to the fight, though they penetrate the cornea, and let out the watry humour. But when they are confiderable, and change the difpofition of the internal parts; when they are quite acrofs the tranfparent cornea; or when they are fmall, if they are attended with a Auxdoion, inflammation, or other accidents, they are almost always followed with lofs of fight; and this on account of the large ci catrices that remain, or by reafon of the ulcers, abfceffes, or great fuppurations that fupervene, and are often the deftruction of this noble organ. Take of rofe water four ounces; of honey of rofes an ounce; white vitriol and fugar of lead, of each thirty grains: mix them for an eye water. Sometimes a fpoonful or two of red port wine may be added, efpecially if a thin humour, runs from the eye. When there is any blemish, or fcurf or fcar remains upon the eye, then blow equal parts of white vitriol and double refined fugar into it, night and morning till the eye begins to look clear, and then the eyewater will be fufficient alone, once a day, till the cure is compleated. When there is a confiderable fluxion on the eye, rowels will help to divert the humours, and the horfe is to be fed with fcalded bran for two or three days, instead of oats. Wounds of the eyes that are made with harp inftruments are more eafy to cure, cæteris pu ribus, than thofe that are made with blunt weapons. Thofe that are made on the fide of the globe of the eye, without hurting the mufcles of the eye, are cafy to heal; but when the muscles or nerves are offended, or the eye is drawn more to one fide than the other, or there is a palfy of the eye, or an abscess formed therein, the confequences are commonly bad. In curing wounds of the eyes, we should be attentive to prevent fluxions, inflammations, and pain, which are the most common fymptoms that attend thefe atcidents. This may be done by bleeding, and repeating it occafionally; by roweling under the Wounds of the eye are not mortal, but on the contrary may be easily cured; yet thofe that are very bad, are not without danger, not only on account of the lofs of fight, but because of the troublesome symptoms that may attend them; fuch as flux-jaws, the breaft or belly, efpeions, inflammation, pain, &c. cially when the eye is much fwelled or inflamed; by clyfters, and by a laxative diet with scald When wounds of the eye are not large; when they do not change the difpofition of the ined bran. If there be any strange ternal parts; when they are not feated on the tranfparent cornea, over against the pupil; and when they heal readily without fupervening accidents, they will do no body left sticking in the eye, or between the globe and the eyelids, it must be taken out. (To be continued.) An Gaming Adventure. An odd GAMING ADVENTURE. A N Archbishop of Canterbury making a tour into a the country, topped at an inn for refreshment. Being at the window, he obferved at a distance, in a folitary wood, a well dreffed man alone, talking, and acting a kind of part. The prelate's curiofity was excited to know what the ftranger was about, and accordingly fent fome of his fervants to obferve him, and hear what he was rehearfing, but they bringing back an anfwer no ways fatisfactory, his grace refolved to go himself. He accordingly repaired to the wood, ordering his attendants to keep at a distance. He addreffed the stranger very politely, and was answered with the fame civility. A converfation having been once entered into, though not without interruptions by an occafional foliloquy, his Grace afked what he was about?" I am at play," he replied. "At play," faid the prelate, "and with whom? Vou are all alone.". "I own," faid he, "fir, you do not perceive any antagonist, but I am playing with God." " Play ing with God!" (his lordship thinking the man out of his mind)"this is a very extraordinary party, and pray at what game, fir, are you playing?" 13 accounts?" Very exactly and The prelate was quite fafcinated; he did not know what to make of this extraordinary adventure, he viewed the money, and found all the guineas good, recalled all that had paffed, and began to think there must be fomething in this man more than he had difcovered. However, he continued his journey, and applied the money to the ufe of the poor, as had been directed. Upon his return, he stopped at the fame inn, and perceiving the fame perfon again in the wood, in his former fituation, he refolved to have a little further conversation with him, and went alone to the fpot where he was. At Chefs, fir," The archbi- The franger was a comely man, fhop fmiled; but the man feem- and the prelate could not help ing peaceable, he was willing to viewing him with a kind of reli amufe himself with a few more gious veneration, thinking, by queftions. "And do you play this time, that he was infpired to for any thing, fir?"" Certain do good in this uncommon manly." You cannot have any ner. The prelate accofted him great chance, as your adverfary as an old acquaintance, and fa. must be fo fuperior to you!"miliarly asked him how the "He does not take any advantage, but plays merely like a man.""Pray fir, when you win or loose, how do you fettle your met. chance ftood fince they had laft "Sometimes for me, and fometimes against me, I have both loft and won."—And are you at 14 Obfervations on Poaching. at play now"""Yes, fir, we bave played feveral games to day won "And who wins?" been for many years decreafing, and that this decrease is not to be charged to fair sportsmen, but to "Why, fir, at prefent the advan-poachers, is, I think, universally tage is on my fide, the game is acknowledged. juft over, I have a fine ftroke; check-mate, there it is."-" And pray, fir, how much have you "Five hundred gui neas. "That is a handfòme fum, but how are you to be paid?" "I pay and receive in the like manner: he always fends me fome good rich man when I win, and you my lord, are the perfon. God is remarkably punctual upon these occafions." The word poacher, when it is. ufed only to fignify a mean rascal who kills game and fells it, is used in too narrow a fenfe: as I understand the word, it means any person whatever, for how well qualified foever to kill game in a fair and legal way) who either in his own perfon kills game in any manner forbidden by the laws, or fuffers his fer. vants to kill game at all, except only (for the law makes no other exception (where the mafter is lord of a manor, and as fuch has a right to appoint one menial fervant to kill game, within that manor only, for which he fhall be appointed; and even in this cafe, the law lays fuch game keeper, and his mafter likewife, under some restrictions, viz. not. killing any kind of game in the night, nor with unlawful engines, fuch as tunnels, wires, &c. and if these laws were properly attended to, and freadily executed, I am well fatisfied all complaints of the scarcity of game would be foon at an end. otherwife; fome of the gentle But the cafe at prefent is far men to whom the execution of thefe laws is committed, are themselves the most notorious offenders against them; and they are in fact, the great deftroyers of the game. As Gay justly ob. ferves in the motto to this paper, they ftigmatize each other for poaching; and thefe reproaches are generally juft. 'Tis ufually faid, that if there were no receivers, there would be no thieves; and it is as just to say, if there were no receivers of game, there would be no poachers. Who |