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the uses of this order in warm climates are highly multifarious, 
and it is probable that, if they grew readily in our climate, 
these would be greatly extended. 
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BURSATIE. 
By R. Spooner Hart, Y.S., Calcutta. 
{Continued from p. 21.) 
I implied, in a former article, that the angles of the mouth 
were occasionally the seat of bursatic ulceration, and seeing 
that the disease is frequently a growth of scars, we have at 
once an explanation of the circumstance, for the angles of 
the mouth are always more or less injured and cut by the bit 
at some time. I have observed a pecular nodular species of 
growth which in some respects resembles bursatic, and is 
sometimes called bursatie; but I deny its relation to this 
disease. It is undoubtedly, in some respects, a tubercular 
affection; I have seen it under suture points and the brand 
marks of horses. The skin covering these growths will fre¬ 
quently become irritable and ulcerate, thereby exposing a 
small, nodular, pinkish-white, vascular tissue, of the size of 
a shilling in circumference. If you cauterize these produc¬ 
tions and slough them out, the chances are greatly in favour 
of their not returning, and in this respect they are vastly 
unlike bursatie, which is not easily to be eradicated from the 
site of its first development. It is a common error, and not 
entirely a public one, that bursatie is infectious. I have 
heard professional men express words of fear and surprise on 
seeing bursatic patients indiscriminately standing among 
other infirmary cases. I failed to produce the disease by 
inoculation, and infer from that the non-contagiousness of 
the malady. It is held by some that bursatie is hereditary, 
but I am inexperienced with reference to this particular 
question. 
I have at the present time two bursatied mares far advanced 
in pregnancy, and I will endeavour to watch their produce, 
and hope to be in a position one day to speak with some 
certainty on the point. I should not be greatly surprised if the 
disease were hereditary, for the tubercular order of diseases in 
the human subject are generally admitted to be so. I may 
mention the fact that, in the hackney stables, where the dis¬ 
ease is so common, there is a large amount of in-and-in 
