834 REMARKABLE AFFECTION AMONG HORSES IN INtilA. 
with tonics in the shape of gentian, quinine, and sulphate of 
iron. I never remarked effects on the urine which I could 
fairly attribute to this treatment, and I now leave the 
naturally hardy constitution of the horses which I use 
(Arabs) to the vis medicatrix natures. 
e( Since commencing this note a disease peculiarly Indian, 
and which I have never seen noticed in veterinary books, 
occurs to my mind. It is known as ‘ bursatee/ and is so 
called from generally attacking the subject in the rainy sea¬ 
son. It consists of sores which break out on the animal, and 
are not confined to any particular situation. There is little 
local inflammation, but distinct symptoms of fever, ascribable 
to the sores alone,- These latter are obstinate to a degree, I 
believe, quite unknown in Europe. However, I may well 
add that in the rains all sores are obstinate, and wounds are 
liable to assume an unhealthy character—I mean will not 
yield to treatment; bursatee is peculiarly so. In Europe 
most men would attribute disease of this nature to bad stable 
management, defective ventilation, or something calculated to 
foul the system. As a rule, this will not apply in India to the 
same extent as in Europe. The disease is peculiar among 
animals to horses. I am not nearly qualified to decide, but I 
think there is a great similarity between bursatee and Delhi 
sores; the latter peculiar to the human subject. The point 
of most difference is, that one attacks the human subject 
almost always in the hot weather, when the system is most 
reduced; and the other almost invariably appears in the 
rains. Both alike run their course, giving way, like most 
other Indian complaints, to no treatment so much as com¬ 
plete change of climate and food. Gram, the almost invari¬ 
able food of the horse in India, is undoubtedly more heating 
than the cereals more in use elsewhere, and accordingly the 
system is in an unfavorable state to deal with a disease, while 
the moisture aggravates the obstinacy of the sores; yet I 
believe sufficiently in medicine to hope that its effects are not 
quite dependent on auxiliaries not always available. 
“ My own experience of bursatee is very limited, and my 
treatment confined to dressing the sores with carbolic acid 
and glycerine, mixed in various proportions, with free use of 
sulphate of iron as a tonic, with such nourishing food as was 
procurable, viz., gram, bran, and barley. I have found but 
little immediate benefit from this: but when the sores heal, 
which they almost always do with the change of season, pro¬ 
vided the animal survives so long, then the effects of the 
tonic are very striking .—The Field , March 23, 1872. 
