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BURSANTEE. 



Various are the remedies that have been 

 employed for this disease, and it is rather un- 

 consolatory to find, that no veterinary surgeon, 

 at either of the Presidencies, has yet con- 

 descended to favour the public with a paper 

 on the subject. If, then, we are to be doomed 

 to grope out a cure ourselves, I cannot too 

 soon add my ideas to those of other amateurs, 

 who have already written for our benefit in the 

 "Sporting Magazine;" such recommending the 

 madar, blue vitriol, &c. 



In accordance with its name, the months of 

 June, July, August, and September, generally 

 the two middle ones, are the periods at which this 

 disease breaks out. The worst cases are always 

 low, damp, and "feverish," situations. It rarely 

 occurs in a bad form in the Deccan ; a dry 

 " liverish" climate, like this, is one of the most 

 effectual ingredients in the cure. When a horse 

 is predisposed to break out with bursantee, and 

 it happens to be at an unfavorable station, and 

 he is at the same time neglected, the usefulness 

 of the animal is then destroyed for seven or 

 eight months, and he will too often retain the 

 scars, and loss of hair, for ever. It being my opi- 



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