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extends to. After once getting the quittor oj)ened and dis- 

 charging matter below, the treatment can be successfully 

 applied. After opening the quittor at the sole, a flax-seed 

 poultice should be applied and kept on for several days, 

 changing it twice a day. It will cause a discharge of healthy 

 matter, and incline the quittor to heal. If it is not getting 

 along well by the poulticing, nitrate of silver, forty grains to 

 the ounce of rain-water, may be injected into the sinuses once 

 a day, with a glass syringe, for two or three days, after which 

 use only ten grains to the ounce of water, the poultices still 

 being continued if the quittor closes at the coronet after being- 

 opened below. But, on probing the opening at the coronet, it 

 will sometimes be found that it only extends a little way 

 down ; then, by injecting it twice or three times a day with 

 tincture of aloes and myrrh, a cure Avill be easily effected. 



Another plan of treating quittor is to make a slim tent, of 

 tow or flax, as long as can be passed into the sinus or pipe, 

 and soak it in Venice turpentine, and introduce it into the 

 pipe. If it does not stay in well, it can be held in by a band- 

 age, or strip of sticking-plaster. After a few days matter 

 will flow freely, and if the cure is going to be successful, the 

 matter will be of a yellow, healthy ap})earance, and the quan- 

 tity decrease. The tent must be removed, cleansed, and 

 soaked in the turpentine, once a day. It would be well to 

 inject the pipe with salt-water, when the tent is taken out, to 

 cleanse it. After the tent has been used about a week, if the 

 case is doino; well, a shorter tent mav have to be used, for the 

 sinuses will be filling up. If proud flesh should appear it 

 may be removed by the use of burnt alum, in powder, freely 

 applied to it. Another good treatment for quittor is to inject 

 the sinuses with the ointment used in fistula and poll-evil, 

 twice a day. It will have to be softened for this purpose. 



The horse should be kept quiet, on a soft dirt floor, and fed 

 light diet. A good, cleansing physic would be useful at the 

 commencement of the treatment, and repeated in a few days. 



