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directly under the skin in the cellular tissue; they vary in size 
when first noticed from a small pea to twice that size. In a 
few days they become hot and painful to the touch, and have 
changed from a soft tumor to a hard one; as they grow 
they become attached to the skin; from this stage on 
their development is very rapid, and is hastened should the 
animal rub or the harness chafe the parts. They ulcerate 
lapidly and discharge a thin yellowish fluid. The sore has a 
veiy unhealthy appearance and is usually circular in shape 
and the same size as the former enlargement. The edges of 
the wound are raised and ragged in appearance. This ulcera¬ 
tive process seems to undermine the skin surrounding the 
ulcei , and extending still outside of this we find a dense fiber- 
ous tissue, so that in looking upon a sore they do not appear 
as large as they really are. They are very maligant in nature, 
and enlarged by these ulcers becoming confluent. Situated 
on the floor we find little hard eminences called “ Kimhers •” 
they are composed of lime deposit and are very hard. By 
analysis it has been shown that they contain about ten per 
cent, of inorganic matter, principally phosphate and carbonate 
o lime. Their color, as near as I can describe them, is cream 
white. They vary in size from a millet seed to a hickory nut, 
and their shape that of a coral with sharp nodules sticking out 
in every direction and shape. These kimhers may be re¬ 
moved from their place of concealment with a point of a knife 
or at times with the thumb and finger. Their growth is very 
rapid; all of any size may be removed to-day and in three or 
four days there are just as many there as before. The floor is 
also covered with a dark red jelly-like substance, which has a 
very unhealthy appearance. With such an unhealthy lookin°- 
ulcer, and having this deposit of lime salts, which is diagnostic 
of this particular kind, there is no chance of being mistaken as 
to the kind of sore it is. The papilla that covers the floor 
bleeds easily. The discharge from a bursattee sore, if allowed 
to flow down over a healthy surface and not washed off fre¬ 
quently, will by the aid of flies, make the parts raw and we 
have small bursattee sores appearing along its course, which if 
not molested will increase in size, eventually become confluent 
