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 PURGING. See Looseness. 



QUITTOH. 



In a Domestic Treatise on Medicine, more, perhaps, 

 may properly be said on the prevention of this disease 

 than on the cure ; as the one is often easy, and the 

 other must claim the assistance of the experienced 

 farrier. 



A quittor almost always arises either from a ^vo^md 

 or bruise on the coronet, or from a nail prick ; either 

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

 duce this diseased state. But when one or the other 

 has been neglected, infianfuiation follows, and an 

 abscess forms wiUiin the cotlin, which at last makes 

 its way out of the quaiteis above the coronet. The 

 only proper method is that which farriers term coring 

 out the wound ; for curing it by cutting is some 

 months about, and leaves an irreparable blemish, 

 and ofien a false quarter. When the direction of the 

 iistulous sores forming the wound is ascertained, some 

 oftlie 



Strong Paste for Grease [page 17] should 

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

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

 fistulous pipes; or blue vitriol coarsely pounded, and 

 mixed with pitch or tar, may be introduced. This 

 raises a considerable inflammation, the consequence 

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

 farriers call the core ; and if the substance has 

 reached the whole of the sinuses, the wound then 

 heals; if not, it must be repeated. The principal 

 management is in introducing the substance to the 

 bottom, and into ail the pipes^ or sinuses. 



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