The tumours are found in the region of the perforated tendon of the knee, at the forearm, and at various points of the shoulder and arm. "HOLMES 127 The tumour is composed of dense fibrous tissue which is often calcified and surrounds yellowish nuclei, in the centre of which is found the worm which up to the present time has only been extracted in fragments. [...] In the mucous membrane Bursati sores are found on the inner canthus of the eye, the angle of the mouth and on the penis. [...] In regard to both the theories, the "fungoid" and the " filarial," which have been advanced as an explanation of the etiology of Bursati, it is strange that, although the disease is of common inci- dence every year in India, and many Veterinary Officers have interested themselves in a study of the lesions, no confirmation of the observations of Smith, Steel and Lingard have been recorded. [...] The further treatment should consist in a free dusting or packing of the site of the sore with the crystalline powder of the red oxide of mercury, and the application of the powder should be continued so long as any serosity of moisture persists. [...] The presence of spores and mycelia in the Bursati tumours, and the fact that cultures of a fungus of the genus Sporo- tricum have repeatedly been obtained from Bursati tumours and kunkurs and also direct from the blood of horses infected with Bursati, affords some evidence that the disease is a mycosis some- what resembling the Sporothricosis of the horse and mule described by Carougeau in Madagas
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Frontmatter
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Part I. History of Bursati
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Part II. The Identity of Bursati with 'Leeches ' 'Summer Sore ' 'Granular Dermatitis' and other Skin Affections
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122-127 | J. D. E. Holmes | view |
Part III. Clinical Characteristics of Bursati
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128-134 | J. D. E. Holmes | view |
Part IV. Histology and Etiology of Bursati
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135-143 | J. D. E. Holmes | view |
Part V. Treatment of Bursati
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144-147 | J. D. E. Holmes | view |
Conclusions
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148-148 | J. D. E. Holmes | view |
References
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149-152 | J. D. E. Holmes | view |
Description of Plates
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i-vi | J. D. E. Holmes | view |