THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
YOL. XXVI, 
No. 303. 
MARCH, 1853. 
Third Series, 
No. 63. 
DISEASES OF HOUSES ENDEMIC TO INDIA. 
By J. T. Hodgson. 
Sir, — I believe an account of these have appeared before 
in your Journal, by an intelligent student of mine — Mr. 
Hughes. However, the accompanying drawings* will pro- 
bably better explain their nature, should there be nothing 
new in my observations. 
Bursautee, as the name implies, is a cancerous ulcer 
which is prevalent during the Bursaut or rainy season, and is 
considered to be of two kinds, simple and curable ; and 
the malignant, supposed to be incurable, or if healed up 
liable to ulcerate again. The first happens in parts of the 
skin that are thin and liable to abrasion, as the angle of 
the lips, the eyelids, prepuce, &c. An abrasion, which at 
any other time of the year would heal up quickly, will 
not do so in the rains ; even if it should show an inclina- 
tion to do so to-day, a change in the weather will prevent 
this the next day. You may guess, when you get up at day- 
break, what appearance the ulcers will have when you go to 
the hospital stable. A slight abrasion will, instead of being 
dry, be moist on the surface, and the surrounding edges and 
base will be thickened from effusion. You have the ulcer 
dressed, it appears to be healing again; the closeness of 
atmosphere, particularly with an easterly wind, and the ulcer 
again becomes moist on the surface, with pale flabby granula- 
tions, which are so prominently above the surrounding skin 
that it becomes necessary for you to remove these with the 
knife, in doing which you must be careful not to extend the 
surface by removing any of the sound skin, because you will 
then only have a larger ulcer, and for this reason the actual 
cautery and caustic applications are inapplicable. The motive 
* We regret we cannot undertake the engraving of these. — Eu. ‘ Vet.’ 
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