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ON BURSAUTEE, 
“ superintend the profession/’ for at present we have no 
“ principal veterinary surgeon/’ as in Her Majesty’s service ; 
consequently, no professional medium of communication with 
the government exists, and, worse still, no point d’appui for 
professional information, improvement, or the dissemination 
of the latter. This is a state of things greatly to be deplored; 
for, if not actually productive of apathy or neglect in some, it 
must necessarily retard the advancement of the whole by the 
absence of the focal point from which the recurrent spring 
of accumulated information should flow. 
But I am digressing. To show, however, the serious 
mistakes into which our governors may be led as the con- 
sequence of this faulty system, I copy an official document 
relative to this disease “ Bursautee.” 
Circular, No. 1376. 
Adjutant-General’s Office, 
Head Quarters, Simlah ; July 7, 1851. 
Sir, — I am directed by his Excellency the Commander-in- 
Chief to annex a copy of a document describing certain 
treatment for “ Bursautee,” which Capt. W. W. Apperley, 
of the 4th Light Cavalry (Lancers), and assistant in the 
Stud, has for a series of years adopted with such success 
as to have completely eradicated, by the mode and practice 
specified, the disease from the Poosah Depot, of which he is 
in charge ; and to request you will be good enough to com- 
municate a transcript of the same to all officers commanding 
mounted corps and troops of horse artillery stationed within 
the division under your command, for trial, w T hen deemed 
expedient, and for the more general diffusion of so valuable 
a recipe. 
« I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant, 
(Signed) H. F. Tucker, Lieut. Col., 
Adjutant General of the Army, 
Treatment of Bursautee, 
On the first appearance of a Bursautee sore, stop all grain, 
and feed on cooling diet ; give two or three grains of calomel, 
made into a small ball, morning and evening till salivation 
takes place, which in general shows itself about the seventh 
or eighth day, when a dose of purgative physic should be 
administered. 
In the course of a week or ten days after the physic has 
set, should the sores not appear healthy, repeat the salivation 
and the physic. Sometimes, in obstinate cases, a third sali- 
