ON BURUSATEE. 
long “ imprisoned” by a bad mode of shoeing, and other exciting 
causes. Whenever the inferior surface of the foot becomes nar¬ 
rower than the upper, it continues to contract more and more; 
but whenever we let go the two fixed points, which are the lower 
edges of the crust, and apply an agent below to force the heels 
open, we are then more likely to succeed in bringing back the 
natural shape and tone of the foot. In fact, except we have an 
operatingagent below we never can do any good; and it is in 
this way, I conceive, the steel spring likely to act in breaking 
concussion, and in forcing the heels open. 
Now, Mr. Editor, while I duly estimate the merit of the 
opinions of Professor Coleman and Mr. B. Clark, 1 humbly 
conceive that I have succeeded in improving the common bar 
shoe, so as to be capable of reconciling their mutual disagreement, 
by giving pressure to the frog, and allowing expansion to the wall 
of the foot. 
W. Henderson. 
Edinburgh, 17th October, 1831. 
ON BURUSATEE. 
By Mr. John Tombs, F.S., Bengal Artillery. 
[Continued from page 542.] 
Symptoms continued .—The generality of people in India, when 
they perceive an ulcer or a sore in any part of a horse’s body, im¬ 
mediately say that he has got the “ burusatee,” which is a mis¬ 
taken notion. During the prevalence of the periodical rains, the 
flies are exceedingly numerous and troublesome : they are conti¬ 
nually annoying and teazing horses, and wherever they chance to 
bite, irritation is the consequence in the part. If the animal be 
permitted, he will either rub or bite the part stung by the flies, 
and produce a sore which is mistaken for burusatee. It is per¬ 
fectly true, that the sore may become a burusatee one ; for if the 
flies have access to a horse that has got burusatee ulcers, and to 
another that has got abrasions on the skin, the abraded parts 
will be inoculated, and degenerate into burusatee sores. This is 
the only way that I can account for the disease being communi¬ 
cated from one horse to another. 
The penis is sometimes frightfully swollen in entire horses, who 
appear to be more prone to burusatee than others. What makes 
emasculated horses less liable to this disease than entire horses, 
I cannot with certainty say. Whether it results from the change 
that the system is known to undergo after castration, or the dimi¬ 
nished action of the genital organs, remains to me a matter of 
