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extends over the face, sometimes involving considerable areas 

 of the locality. As hinted elsewhere, it seems probable that 

 the irritation set up by overflow of tears either provides 

 suitable conditions or exciting cause. The angles of the mouth 

 are also frequently affected ; here the bit is credited with a 

 share in its causation. The legs, from the knee downwards, 

 but especially the fetlocks and coronets, are commonly in- 

 volved ; and here some observers have remarked an inclination 

 of the disease-product to assume a character more resembling 

 bone than that found in other positions. The vagina, prepuce, 

 glans penis, and urethra are frequently affected, and the occa- 

 sional symptom of spasmodic ejection of urine is supposed to 

 depend on the presence of kunkur in the last-named situation ; 

 while the growths on the prepuce cause phymosis, and on the 

 glans incapacitate entire horses, and render undesirable pro- 

 perty all of its subjects. The site of an old sore alwaj^s affords 

 soil for the development of the peculiar product of the subject 

 of bursattee, while fresh wounds take on this character, which 

 some practitioners assert can be recognised by the red-currant 

 jelly-like material on them, which soon present the small 

 hardened bodies mentioned disseminated on the floor. 



When the cicatrized and cicatrizing sores are numerous 

 or extensive they may interfere with function in different ways, 

 as loss of contraction, etc. If the disposition to bursattee 

 is very manifest, it has been argued that it is economical to 

 slaughter at once ; our experience has not been sufficient to 

 warrant our endorsing the assertion, and thus incurring for our- 

 selves the responsibility it would involve. Animals, the sub- 

 jects of bursattee, appear not to be seriously affected by work, 

 and this is taken advantage of We have been assured that 

 amongst ' cab ' horses in the large towns, as Calcutta, there are 

 some loathsome sights of poor horses standing exposed to the 

 attack of flies, dust, heat, etc. ; but this, we hope, can be but of 

 rare occurrence. At any rate, it will be the duty of the veter- 

 inary surgeon to exert himself to prevent such a state of 

 affairs. 



Treatment. — The uncertainty shrouding the pathology of the 

 condition must also necessarily to some extent involve its 

 remedial treatment ; however, experience has put us in posses- 

 sion of facts which render some methods at our disposal 



