142 Management and Treatment of the Horse. 



QUITTOE. 



Eefore quitting the subject of diseases of the 

 foot of the horse, there is yet one more, no better 

 than the others I have described, but, if possible, 

 it is worse. Those of my readers who have had 

 the misfortune to have a horse lame with quitter 

 will be able to endorse my remarks, as no man is 

 anxious to have a second case after experiencing 

 the first. A wound of the coronet, whether it 

 proceeds from a tread or otherwise, should be 

 carefully and immediately 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 quitter. 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 

 aflPected cannot possibly heal until the matter is 

 discharged. In wounds of the foot there is much 

 difficulty in the matter proceeding from ulcera- 

 tion finding its way from under the hoof, which 

 covers the foot with its various complicated 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 fre- 

 quently forces itself out in all directions, separat- 

 ing 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 ex- 

 treme cases eats its way deeply into the internal 

 parts of the foot, forming pipes and sinuses, which 

 run in all directions. If quitter arises from a 



