BURSATIE. 
917 
While agreeing with Mr. Fleming as to the desirability of 
attending to all essential points of etiquette in regard to 
authorship, I must remind him that it is also necessary to 
discourage ill-founded claims of this sort, and that they ought 
neither to he made on the one hand nor recognised on the 
other without good foundation. 
BURSATIE. 
By Robert Spooner Hart, M.R.C.V.S., Calcutta. 
(Continued from ft. 715 .) 
It will be observed that the three forms of ulcers met with 
in u Bursatie” correspond with each other, in so far that they 
all commence as tumours under the skin, and subsequently 
ulcerate. The position of the circular ulcers, I am of opinion, 
in some way influences their develoi3inent; for when they 
occur on the neck they show little or no tendency to assume 
the papillated form, but remain scabbed, and increase only 
at the base. The scab seems to consist of detritus and dried 
discharges, and on being removed leaves an angry bleeding 
surface exposed. The ulcer in appearance resembles a 
chancre of immense size, and shows no tendency to heal. 
The tumours are but slightly developed under the circular 
ulcers, in comparison, at least, with those under the medium 
ulcers, and they are still less prominent under the latter than 
under the phagedsenic ulcers. I have seen all three forms 
of ulcers existing at the same time in one subject, but only 
in exceptional instances. The papillated ulcers are very fre¬ 
quently multiple, whilst the medium and phagedenic are 
generally single. It is not unusual to see one medium ulcer 
and a papillated one, or one of the latter and one of the pha¬ 
gedenic variety, in existence at the same time, or they may 
follow each other in alternation. But whilst the circular 
ulcers are formed more frequently in the earlier stages of the 
* malady, the medium and phagedenic mark the latter stages. 
The act of sloughing, which plays such a fatal part in the 
latter stages of Bursatie, is not peculiar to this disease. I 
have seen the same thing occur in melanosis, where the 
tumour and skin covering it have sloughed out, leaving a 
large ragged cavity, and I have further observed that this 
disease, like Bursatie, is most liable to occur during the two 
months which precede the rains, namely, May and June. (Vide 
