264 HORSE, SWINE AND POULTRY DISEASES 



water; nitrate of silver, 10 grains to the ounce of water; and creolin, 

 pure or diluted. If the wound is slow to heal, it will be found of ad- 

 vantage to change the remedies every few days. If the wound is pale 

 in color, the granulations transparent and glistening, the tincture of 

 aloes, tincture of gentian, or the spirits of camphor may do best. 

 When the sore is red in color and healing rapidly, an ointment 

 made of one part of carbolic acid to 40 parts of cosmoline or vaseline 

 is all that is needed. If the granulations continue to grow until a 

 tumor is formed which projects beyond the surrounding skin, it 

 should be cut off with a sharp, clean knife, and the foot poulticed for 

 twenty-four hours, after which the wound is to be well cauterized 

 daily with lunar caustic and the bandages applied with great firm- 

 ness. 



The question as to how often the dressing should be renewed 

 must be determined by the condition of the wound, etc. If the sore 

 is suppurating freely it will be necessary to renew the dressing every 

 twenty-four or forty-eight hours; if the discharge is small in quan- 

 tity and the patient comfortable, the dressing may be left on for 

 several days ; in fact, the less often the wound is disturbed the better, 

 in so long as the healing process is healthy. When the sore com- 

 mences to skin over, the edges should be lightly touched with lunar 

 caustic at each dressing. The patient may now be given a little ex- 

 ercise daily; but the bandages must be kept on until the wound is 

 entirely healed. 



TENDINOUS QUITTOR. 



This form of quittor differs from the cutaneous in that it not 

 only affects the skin and subcutaneous tissues, but involves, also, 

 the tendons of the leg, the ligaments of the joints, and, in many 

 cases, the bones of the foot as well. 



Fortunately this form of quittor is less common than the pre- 

 ceding; yet any case beginning as simple cutaneous quittor may at 

 any time during its course become complicated by the death of some 

 part of the tendons, by gangrene of the ligaments, sloughing of the 

 coronary band, caries of the bones, or inflammation and suppura- 

 tion of the synovia! sacs and joints, thereby converting a simple 

 quittor into one which will, in all probability, either destroy the pa- 

 tients' life or maim him for all time. Tendinous quittor is caused 

 by the same injuries and influences that produce the simple form. 



Symptoms. When a case of simple quittor is transformed into 

 the tendinous variety the change is announced by a sudden increase 

 in the severity of all the symptoms. On the other hand, if the attack 

 primarily is one of tendinous quittor, the earliest symptom seen is a 

 well-marked lameness. In those cases due to causes other than in- 

 juries this lameness is at first very slight, and the animal limps no 

 more in trotting than in walking ; but later on, generally during the 

 next forty-eight hours, the lameness increases to such an extent that 

 the patient often refuses to use the leg at all. An examination made 

 during the first two days rarely discloses any cause for this lameness ; 

 it may not be possible even to say with certainty that the foot is the 

 seat of the trouble. On the third or fourth day, sometimes as late as 



