GENERAL DISEASES. Ill 



have been compared "with cancerous growths, but there 

 appears to be but little analogy between them. Mal- 

 hygienic conditions appear to favour the development of the 

 disease, and it is said to be commoner in stabled animals. 

 Whether bursatee can be transmitted from parent to 

 offspring is an unsettled question. Bursatee is probably 

 non-contagious. 



Symptoms. — The special feature of bursatee is the appear- 

 ance of peculiar growths termed 'kunkurs.'* These are 

 mainly found in those situations which, from their position, 

 are most liable to be the seat of wounds from any cause. 

 The subcutaneous tumours are first noticed as soft nodu- 

 lated swellings. In about eight or ten days from their 

 first appearance they become hardened, until they become 

 as firm as fibroid tumours. After a variable period the 

 tumour ulcerates, and a bursatee sore or ulcer results. The 

 sore is indolent, and has a papillated appearance, and dis- 

 charges a small quantity of pus. The edges of the ulcer 

 are slightly raised and undermined, and on the floor are 

 scattered little hardened eminences called kunkurs, which 

 may be squeezed out. The sores have but little tendency 

 to spread, though in some cases they do increase in size, and 

 neighbouring sores thus become confluent. 



The reparative material is also of the nature of the 

 kunkurous growth, and the cicatrix formed in healing is 

 of a greyish colour. 



Ulceration and cicatrization may go on together in 

 different parts of the sore, and the whole scab may be 

 thrown off, forming an unhealthy ulcerated surface, or it 

 may be fissured, and discharge a grumous matter. The 

 inner can thus of the eye is often the seat of the affection, and 

 from thence it may cover a considerable area of the face ; 



* Kunhur is the native term for a stone used in India for economic 

 purposes. 



