554 ON THE FEET. 



ones ; as fome old goodies^ even now a-days, 

 blefs out thorns. 



QuiTTOR AND False Quarteri caufc 

 and confequence. A quittor, formerly called 

 by our farriers a quittor-bone, or horny quit- 

 tor, is the javart of the French fchool. It is a 

 hard round lump, or excrefcence upon the 

 coronet, between hair and hoof, on one or the 

 other, but ufually the inhde quarter of the foot. 

 Its caufe is the afcent of a foreign body, or 

 morbid material from the bottom, or foal, up- 

 ward ; as a nail, a quantity of gravel, or the 

 extravafated matter of a bruife or corn, which 

 could find no vent below ; thefe forci-ng their 

 way between the quarter and the coffin-bone, 

 work a paflage to the coronet, by deftroying 

 the foliated fubftance, and corrupting all the 

 adjacent parts. This difcafe may be a confi- 

 derable time in breeding, to the exquifite tor- 

 ture of the animal, whofe v/incing, as well as the 

 lump and inflammation upon his coronet, are 

 perhaps totally neglecled by the biped his maf- 

 ter, until fuppuration, and an ulcer of the moft 

 ftubborn and dangerous kind enfue. I have 

 been defcribing the thorough quittor, of all 

 maladies to which the horfe's foot is liable, the 

 moft hopelefs, if we except the founder; which 

 makes it neceffary to caution the reader againft 

 thofe fuperiicial and palhative methods fo con- 

 fidently recommended. Any thing fliort of 



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