ON THE BURUSAUTTEE. 
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glands and the surrounding parts had rapidly and enormously 
enlarged. 1 could not, however, detecTany spot where there was 
decided fluctuation ; I was therefore compelled to have recourse to 
the strongest vesicatory applications, and it was not until the 24th 
that the abscess was opened. The quantity of pus that was dis- 
charged was almost incredible ; the impeded respiration was, 
to a considerable extent, immediately restored, and the horse 
began to eat a little bran mash. 
The tube was in due time extracted, the parts brought together, 
and the wound healed ; and the horse is now at regular work. 
I saw him a few days ago, and he seemed to be as well as ever. 
ON THE BURUSAUTTEE. 
By Charles Jackson, Esq., V.S. 8th Regiment of Light 
Cavalry. 
In The Veterinarian for September 1841, which I re- 
ceived last month, Mr. Hoey, of the East India Company’s service, 
regrets that you have so few Indian correspondents. I regret it 
too ; but do not much wonder at it, because it is expensive work 
sending letters home, and the length of time that must elapse 
before we can see our letters in print damps our zeal. In addition 
to this, many of the diseases to which the horse is liable here are 
not known at home, and, consequently, any detailed history of 
them would be interesting to only a few. On this last point, how- 
ever, I may be mistaken ; for until Mr. W. C. Spooner’s descrip- 
tion of “ melanosis” appeared in your Journal, 1 thought that it 
was a disease peculiar to India ; and perhaps other diseases, now 
thought to be so, may, on farther inquiry, turn out to differ only 
in name from diseases well known in England. I purpose, there- 
fore, sending you from time to time a few lines on the diseases to 
which the horse is liable in India, which you may publish in 
The Veterinarian, or throw behind the fire, as your judgment 
or convenience may dictate. 
One of the most troublesome diseases to which the horse 
is liable here is “ burusauttee not the “burusauttee” of which 
Mr. Armstrong gave a description before the Veterinary Medi- 
cal Association on the 2Gth June, 1838 (vide Proceedings of the 
Veterinary Medical Association for 1838, page 233), for the disease 
he describes under the name of bursattee I never saw or heard of 
before. u Burusauttee,” in the South of India, is a very different 
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