918 
BURSATIE. 
Erichsen, p. 384.) Doubtless occasionally scirrhous masses 
slough out, leaving a large ragged cavity, which may cica¬ 
trize, and thus result in a spontaneous cure, but in the case 
of melanosis and Bursatie I have never yet seen a cure 
effected in this way. The most extraordinary feature in 
connection with Bursatie is the tendency to assume totally 
different forms in different subjects. 
In one subject it may, for a long time, produce no more 
visible effect upon the constitution than would a benign 
growth, whilst in a second, the disease may aj^pear and 
pursue a malignant form, and prove fatal in the course 
of three or four years. The phagedaenic form of the disease 
is the most virulent, and I have never yet seen an animal in 
this stage of the malady in good condition; in fact, in most 
instances the diseased are completely anaemiated and worn- 
out animals, although in the earlier recurrences fair con¬ 
dition may be maintained by the attacked. But the growths 
becoming more malignant and severe in the later than in the 
earlier attacks, their recurring very much quicker, and the 
ulcerative process becoming more rapid, render the decline 
of health most marked. 
Associated with and accompanying the formation of the 
tumours there will be staring coat, pallid membranes, and short 
cough. Sometimes diarrhoea is present, and at other times 
constipation; fsecal matter always offensive. There may be 
also anorexia or, on the other hand, bulimia. The symp¬ 
toms will be all more or less marked, according to the ra¬ 
pidity with which the disease runs its course; but whilst the 
symptoms which have been referred to are liable to vary, 
there is one invariably present, that is, sesthenic inflamma¬ 
tion of the mucous membranes of the nose and eyes. The 
Schneiderian membrane has a leaden hue, and there is a dis¬ 
charge from it of watery mucus. The conjunctiva is of a 
dirty purple colour, while the secretion consists of flocculi of 
lymph with pus, of a dirty grey colour. The eyelids are 
swollen, hot, tender, irritable, and project out from the eye¬ 
ball, which appears to remain free. This state is, as a rule, 
only well marked in one eye; if the near eye is very bad, the 
off eye will only be slightly affected, and vice versa. I have 
heard it remarked by the natives, when seeing the eyes in this 
state, that the malady has attacked the eyes, and there is 
some truth in the remark, for I have observed that when 
a large ulcer exists, the eye symptoms are less marked. 
Then, when the ulcers are’ healing, animals affected with 
Bursatie may, in consequence of a morbidly ravenous appe¬ 
tite, take a large quantity of food, but to no purpose ; the in- 
