122 DISEASES OF HORSES ENDEMIC TO INDIA. 
for their application is removal of the thickened or scirrhous 
base; but the sloughing away of this would only increase 
the sore, the base of which would become again indurated, 
and this would continue over and over again. The knife is 
the best means, being more under your command in removal 
of the thickened base, which should be pared away as much 
as possible ; then apply a pledget of tow, moistened with solu- 
tion of the chloride of lime (1 part to 24 parts of water), 
and, where you can, employ pressure with a bandage, which 
should be kept moist with freezing mixture. 
During this time you have to attend to the state or con- 
dition of the horse ; if very fat, give plenty of physic ; in 
short, the best way is to put him in training, he may then 
be in condition for work at the close of the rains, perhaps 
before. Be this as it may, you sometimes cannot cure the 
ulcer until, in the middle of September, the rains cease, and 
the wind blows from westward or north-w 7 est. Then, with 
the mildest treatment, or even none at all, the ulcers are in 
one night dry, and in a few days healed ; leaving only a thicken- 
ed base, which, by taking the horse into work, is quickly ab- 
sorbed. On the contrary, only let the horse stand in the 
stable because it rains, try your iron, or a lot of confounded 
quackery that .you w ill be told of, and the ulcers at the end 
of the rains are in just the same state as the ulcers w 7 ere in 
June. 
In regard to malignant JBursautee , there is no such disease. 
Were I to show you a horse w ith a leg like the drawing I 
send, without the thickened base to the ulcer, you would say 
“ it is Farcy 1” well, so it is ; but from the effect of climate, 
the season, &c., it has taken on the same scirrhous action at 
the base, and there is this difference between this ulcer and 
simple ulceration from abrasion, that it is tuberculous, the 
tubercles varying in size from millet to grape seeds ; some- 
times encysted, at others not. Whether or not this peculiar 
scirrhus prevents it, the absorbent vessels of the limbs 
do not become affected, and you have not this appearance of 
farcy, and which only is thought to be farcy, while this farcy 
leg is supposed to be a malignant disease peculiar to the 
country, when inoculation of an ass from a recent spon- 
taneous ulcer, would in a few days prove to the contrary ; but 
I have written enough to guard the freshman in India against 
such notions. 
Tuberiform Melanosis will be occasionally met with 
at the same parts, but cannot, if the student has ever read 
£ The Veterinarian , 5 be mistaken for this form of can- 
cerous ulcer, bursautee. 
