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nine cases of burusatee in the hospital stables at the same time: 
twenty-one were stud-bred horses, by English stallions, out of 
country mares; the remaining eight were country-bred horses. 
This circumstance induces me to think that the predisposing or 
remote cause may be foreign blood, at least foreign to India. 
The immediate, exciting, or proximate causes may be the 
vicissitudes of the temperature of the atmosphere. A sudden 
change takes place in the atmosphere when the periodical rains 
begin; at this particular time the disease makes it appearance. 
Previous to the heavy rains falling the weather is excessively hot 
and dry; subsequently the atmosphere is very moist, and occa¬ 
sionally cool: miasma is very predominant. The disease so fre¬ 
quently taking place at this season of the year, leads me to sup¬ 
pose that it is constitutional : whether there is a poison lurking 
in the system previously to the rains, and roused into action by 
the sudden transition of the weather; or whether it is the miasma 
that is the cause, remains a matter of doubt. 
Preventives .—The best preventive that I am acquainted with 
is copious venesection and purgatives, about three weeks or a 
month before the rains begin. If a horse has once had the dis¬ 
ease, it is almost impossible to prevent its recurrence. 
Symptoms .—The disease makes its appearance in various parts 
of the body, as the penis, prepuce, extremities, head, neck, &c.: 
there is no external part of the body exempt from it. The part 
affected swells and ulcerates, and soon degenerates into a buru¬ 
satee tubercle: unless we have a tubercle we cannot have a true 
burusatee sore. Many people are totally unacquainted with this 
characteristic symptom ; they frequently confound a common sore 
with a burusatee one. I can only distinguish a burusatee sore 
from a common one by the presence of a tubercle. I am quite 
satisfied when I see pus oozing from the mouths of arteries, that 
it is a case of burusatee. 
Fearing that I shall occupy too much room in your truly inte¬ 
resting Journal, I will postpone this subject for the present, and 
continue it in the succeeding Number. 
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By the same. 
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Previous to my departure for India, I was asked by an ac¬ 
quaintance in the country to look at a blood filly of his. ' On 
inspecting her, l ascertained that she had got an enormous ring- 
