QUITTOR. 



In a Domeftic Treatife on Medicine, more, per- 

 haps, may properly be laid on the prevention of this 

 difeale than on the cure; as the one is often eafv, 

 and tiie other muil claim the affiftance of the expe- 

 rienced farrier. 



A quittor almoft always arifes either from a wound 

 <5r bruife on the coronet, or from a nail prick; either 

 of which, if taken in lirne, would hardly ever pro- 

 duce this difeafed ftate. But when one or the other 

 has been neglecled, infiammation follows, and an 

 abfcefs forms within the cofiin, which at laft makes 

 its way out at the quarters above the coronet. The 

 only proper method is that which farriers term coring 

 out the wound ; for curing it by cutting is fome 

 months about, and leaves an irreparable blemifh, 

 and cflcn a flilfc quarter. When the direction of the 

 fiitulous fores forming the wound is afcertained, 

 fome of the 



Strong Paste for Grease [page 524-] fliould 

 be mixed with flour, fo as to make it hard enough 

 to be forced with a probe to the bottom of all the 

 fiftulous pipes; or blue vitriol coarfely pounded, and 

 mixed with pitch or tar, may be introduced. This 

 raifes a confiderable inflammation, the confequence 

 of which is, that a large flough comes out, which 

 farrier's call the core ; and if the fubfl:ance has 

 reached the whole of the finufcs, the wound then 



