ON THE DISEASES OF HORSES IN INDIA. 419 
ON THE DISEASE TO WHICH HORSES ARE SUB¬ 
JECT IN THE EAST INDIES, TERMED BAUSETTE. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Southampton, Sept. 11, 1829. 
Gentlemen, 
I BEG to acknowledge the satisfaction I felt when I first heard 
of your publication, and the information I have derived from the 
perusal of many valuable papers in it; and I sincerely hope to 
see, ere long, every member of my profession on terms of unity 
and peace, and every sheet of “ The Veterinarian” teeming 
with valuable knowledge. 
Should the following case meet with your approval, I beg to 
offer it for insertion. 
I have the honour to be, &c., 
James Kerr, 
Late Veterinary Surgeon, 1st Bengal Light Cavalry. 
Among the peculiarities of disease to which the horses of India 
are liable, is one named “ bausette,” from “ bausett,” the 
rainy season ; peculiar, I believe, from horses alone being subject 
to it, and also from its connexion with the above season. 
The two seasons most remarkable in India are the w r et and dry. 
At the commencement of the former, the bausette makes its 
appearance, and regularly terminates as the dry season sets in. 
All horses, of every breed, age, and condition, are more, or less 
susceptible of the disease. Some few altogether escape ; but they 
who once get it are almost sure of a return. Leggy Hat-sided 
horses evidently fare the worst. 
Symptoms. —Bausette first makes its appearance in the form 
of small tumours, generally about the angle of the lips, or on the 
face and scrotum. These, if let alone, suppurate, and become a 
bausette ulcer, and from exposure to air rapidly spread and be¬ 
come schirrous. Such is the susceptibility in some horses at this 
season, that the smallest abrasion, as sore lip from sharp bit, 
saddle gall, or rubbing or halter cast, even the slight wound that 
remains when the pin is taken from the neck too soon after bleed- 
in g, rapidly degenerate into bausette, if exposed to the air. 
In slight cases, the horse merely suffers locally; but I have 
seen considerable disturbance in violent cases. In my note book 
