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TWO CASES OF BURUSATEE. 
25th, —There is a little discharge and swelling : the parts seem 
disposed to become schirrous again. Continue the remedies. 
Sept. ls£.—The sheath is enormously swollen. An emollient 
poultice applied daily: sulphate of copper and iron exhibited as 
before. 
18 th .—Swelling reduced; discharge less ; horse improving in 
condition. Burnt alum and muriatic acid used to the sores. 
28 th. —The ulcers on the extremities quite healed. 
Oct. 8th. —The animal appears perfectly recovered : I now 
work him regularly. 
CASE II. 
July 7th, 1830.—A brown horse, aged, the property of an 
officer in the foot artillery, has had an enlarged penis for the last 
twelvemonths. A few days ago a multitude of small sores made 
their appearance on the penis, and a discharge of pus has taken 
place from them ; the animal cannot draw his penis into the 
sheath, it hangs pendulous between his thighs. I told the pro¬ 
prietor that it was indispensably necessary to amputate it, to 
which he assented. I bled and physicked the horse, and then per¬ 
formed the operation of amputation, as follows : viz., cast the horse, 
and rolled him on his back; I pulled the penis out of the sheath 
as far as possible, and my assistant held it out firmly ; I then 
fixed the torniquet on the penis, above the diseased part, and with 
a scalpel excised half the penis. The torniquet w r as now removed, 
the pudendal arteries being previously secured : I had no occasion 
to use the actual cautery. The operation lasted but a few minutes. 
Inflammation and swelling ensued, but it was soon subdued 
by fomentations of heem. When the inflammation subsided, the 
healing process went on remarkably quick: on the 12th of 
August he was discharged from the hospital stable fit for duty. 
I thought of communicating a few cases of Kumree; but on 
perusing The Veterinarian for 1830, page 253, I perceive 
that there is an excellent description of it. Therefore Messrs. 
Editors, if you, or any of your numerous correspondents, can 
suggest a more curative treatment for burusatee than the one that 
I have hitherto adopted, I should feel highly obliged by having it 
communicated through the medium of The Veterinarian: 
likewise the most efficacious remedy for Kumree. 
I remain, gentlemen, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. Tombs, V.S., H.E.I.C. 
P.S. The treatment that I generally pursued for kumree 
was venesection, laxatives, blisters, and setons to the loins, and, 
eventually, castration : but it invariably proved unsuccessful. 
