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BURSAUTEE. 
and progress, having several cases now under treatment, 
which shall be the subject of a fair experiment, trusting that 
we shall together, be enabled to put forth a pretty certain 
treatment, if not a specific, for the cure of that bane of horse- 
flesh in India. 
In conclusion, I beg leave to state, that I believe Captain 
Apperley’s external treatment to be good as far as it goes, 
but I would not mix the sulphates of copper and zinc to- 
gether ; they are more efficacious separately. In the course of 
last year I depended on local remedies only (except in a few 
cases where I gave tonics) and at first I generally used the 
actual cautery, which always produces a fresh clean surface, 
after which 1 used a host of escharotics, including all those 
named by Captain Apperley, and adding the solution of the 
nitrate of silver ; the great point appears to be in varying 
the application every day. I can also speak in praise of the 
green ointment which was used by my father 20 years ago, 
as a digestive, and I opine every bursautee sore ought to be 
covered with it to keep off the flies, as they not only prevent 
healing but they carry the virus from sore to sore, and from 
horse to horse, so much so, that I would rather my neigh- 
bour have a glandered horse in his compound, than one 
affected with bursautee, if his wounds were left undressed, 
and his stable without chicks.* 
I trust Captain Apperley will excuse my taking the matter 
up, but I cannot resisting telling the Government and the 
public of India, through the medium of your valuable journal, 
that they must not place any reliance on his specific for bur- 
sautee, having already in two instances proved it a failure. 
I am, Sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
Thomas P. Page, V.S., 
Horse Artillery. 
Lahore, Aug. 25, 1851. 
MORTALITY FROM CASTRATION. 
By Thos. Hurford, M.R.C.Y.S., 12th Dragoons. 
Dear Sir, — I was rather astounded on being shown, by 
Western, the extraordinary rate of mortality attendant on 
castrations in Europe. I have often thought myself a very 
successful hand in disposing of some patients ; but I am 
* Blinds to admit air, and keep out flies, affixed to doors and windows. 
