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Treatment. Having found the nail or whatever it may be, it 

 should be removed at once, and the hole enlarged somewhat to 

 allow a free escape of any pus that may form. The hole may be 

 filled with turpentine, or a solution of carbolic acid, or still bet- 

 ter, our Healing Lotion (see Appendix), and plugged with cot- 

 ton to keep out the dirt. If the hole is found filled up, it should 

 be well opened and cleaned out, and a warm poultice of equal 

 parts of wheat bran and linseed meal be tied on the whole foot, 

 and changed every six hours until four or five poultices have been 

 applied. While the poultice is off, keep the hole plugged with 

 cotton saturated with our Healing Lotion. While you are not 

 poulticing, the cotton should be changed every day and the 

 wound dressed nicely. Keep the horse in a dry, clean place until 

 the sore heals up. Give rest and a laxative diet. Close attention 

 and thorough cleanliness will often ward off an attack of lockjaw, 



QUITTOR. 



A quittor is a running sore at the top of the hoof, extending 

 down inside of the hoof, sometimes penetrating deeply and in- 

 volving the bone. 



Causes. Pus occurring in the foot, from any cause whatever, 

 may result in quittor, for the reason that the pus, being unable to 

 escape, extends in various directions, destroying the tissues in 

 its course, increases in quantity, until, finally reaching the top of 

 the hoof, it bursts forth, making an outlet for itself and form- 

 ing a running sore, when it becomes known as a quittor. Nail in 

 the foot, suppurating corns, or pricks from being shod, may all 

 run into quittor by the matter being unable to get out the bot- 

 tom of the foot. A gravel will sometimes work out the top of th<* 

 hoof and form a quittor. 



