118 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



first. A wound of the coronet, whether it proceeds 

 from a tread or otherwise, should be carefully and im- 

 mediately attended to, because if sand or gravel get into 

 the wound it is likely to produce those deep-seated 

 ulcerations that are termed pipes or sinuses, which 

 constitute the disease called quittor. It may also 

 proceed from any wound of the foot, and in any part of 

 it. In all ulcers matter is secreted, and the part affected 

 cannot possibly heal until the matter is discharged. In 

 wounds of the foot there is much difficulty in the matter 

 proceeding from ulceration finding its way from under 

 the hoof, which covers the foot with its various com- 

 plicated parts. The consequence is, it accumulates under 

 the hoof until it has increased to such an extent that it 

 must find an escape in some way, and frequently forces 

 itself out in all directions, separating the little fleshy 

 plates from their connexion with the horny ones of the 

 crust, or disuniting the fleshy sole from the horny one, 

 and in extreme cases eats its way deeply into the internal 

 parts of the foot, forming pipes and sinuses, which run in 

 all directions. If quittor arises from a wound in the 

 lower portion of the foot, the matter which is collected 

 in it after the ulcer has ripened, being confined there 

 issues from it, and induces a separation between the 

 horny and fleshy sole, and having accumulated in con- 

 siderable quantities, at length discharges itself at the 

 coronet, generally close to the quarter. This, however, 

 does not manifest itself to any extent, as both the 

 aperture and quantity of matter that oozes out are 

 apparently so insignificant that they would lead an in- 

 experienced person to suppose the discharge of little 



