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to a very considerable degree, relieved by copious perspiration 

 from every part of liis frame ; and, strange as it may appear, the 

 hot season is remarkable, both in the biped and quadruped, for 

 the absence of disease. 



" Then comes the rainy, or what might be with equal pro- 

 priety called the pestilential season. Land storms, hurricanes, 

 suffocating heat, and horrid stenches usher in this awful period. 

 The filth of ravines, drains, and other receptacles of putrid 

 animal and vegetable matter becomes saturated with rain, and 

 being acted upon by the heat already in the soil, generates the 

 most noxious gases, which speedily mingle with the circum- 

 ambient air. 



" The bursautee is an eruption all over the body, arising from 

 the pores of the skin being stimulated by the increased animal 

 heat to discharge the perspirable matter ; but this is prevented 

 by the thickening of the epidermis, or the tenacious matter 

 before alluded to. 



" The bursautee sore in the horse very much resembles the 

 boil in the human being. It forms a painful tumour, which 

 suppurates and breaks ; or should the skin of any horses pre- 

 disposed to the disease become abraded, it will run into a bur- 

 sautee sore, and spread. The ex{)osure of common wounds to 

 the action of the air, or to the irritation produced by flies, will 

 dispose them to take on the bursautee character. 



" Sometimes, from the great irritation of these tumours or 

 sores, the pulse becomes accelerated, and the general system 

 deranged, and depletion must be resorted to. In all the horses 

 that had been previously attacked with bursautee, and which 

 experience had told me were more liable than others to a re- 

 currence of the eruption, I would at the beginning of the rains 

 insert setons as near as I could to the parts previously affected, 

 provided they did not interfere with the action of the animal. 

 This, by forming an artificial drain, would prevent the unsightly 

 appearance of the foul ulcers which are too frequently seen, and 

 would rob the disease of all of its terrors. At the same time I 

 would not forget the importance of cleanliness, and regimen, 

 and regular exercise. Durinsi; the existence of bursautee the 

 food should be nutritious, but not too stimulatinoj. Fresh 2;rass 

 should be avoided, for it as surely tends to the formation of 

 bursautee sores as the eating mangoes does to the appearance 

 of boils in the human subject." — Eu.] 



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