BURSAUTEE. 193 



When a horse is predisposed to break out with bur- 

 sautee, 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 opinion, that the 

 cause lies in a constitutional predisposition, which 

 cannot be discovered till the complaint appears, and 

 the only likely safeguard, against its breaking out 

 severely, being a dry climate, I shall proceed to re- 

 commend a trial of that which in most cases will be 

 found to expedite the cure. On the first appearance 

 of the disease give a mild, warm drench of physic,'* 

 consisting of aloes and Epsom salts, with a drachm 

 of ginger, in rice congee, t Three days after the 

 physic has set, give half of a common rnasallah ball 

 daily, for three days, then omit one day, and com- 

 mence with two grains of cantharides, one drachm of 

 ginger, one drachm of gentian, or chreeate, and one 

 drachm of anise-seed, in a ball ; this to be given every 

 evening, after the last seven o'clock feed. After six 

 days increase the cantharides to four grains, and .after 

 twelve days, to six grains. After eighteen days, if 

 the appetite improves, increase the cantharides to 

 eight grains. After twenty-four days, discontinue 

 the ball altogether for three days, and then commence 

 again with the first quantity of only two grains, in- 

 creasing to the second, as before, and so on through 

 the whole monsoon.}: The food during this time, 



* See " PHYSICKING," p. 66. 



+ I would rather give a ball, consisting of aloes and ginger. ED. 

 Instead of the foregoing, I would give the following ball morning and 

 evening. Cantharides five grains, Dinioclide of copper half a drachni, Gentian 



