SyO DISEASES 0I-- TlIK FKKT. 



generally caused by troads. pricks in shooing, suppurating corns, 

 or any other injury calculated to excite the suppurative action 

 within the foot, or in the structures of the coronet. 



The symj^toms of quittor are lameness, swelling \;pon tlie 



rcoronet, about the centre of which one or more small orifices are 



seen, discharging either a tliin limpid secretion, or a thick, perhaps 



curdled, pus. From the external orifices, sinuses are found 



leading generally in a dowmvard direction, bcneatli the coronary. 



;substanc3, lateral cartilage, and into the foot itself. 



In many cases the animal is excessively lame, scarcely, able" to 

 jput the foot to the ground. 



A quittor differs from a wound, or a recent abscess onithe 

 coronet, by the condition of the parts, which have taken on'' a 

 peculiar unhealthy action, by the character of the surrounding 

 swelling, which is hard to tlie touch; and by the presencelof 

 sinuses. 



The treatment will depeaid upon the cause? If , it^be ''any- 

 thing within the foot, as a festered corn or a prick, a depending 

 opening must be made at tlic sole, sufficiently large to allow the 

 free escape of the contained pus. Tliis, along witli poultices for 

 a few days, succeeded by a blister to tlie enlarged coronet, will 

 often be sufficient;; the foot being protected in tlie meantime by 

 a nicely adapted bar shoe, if it bo too weak to go without, lu 

 all cases of injury to the feet, I tliink tliat if it be possible to 

 do without til© shoe it is better not to apply it ; but if the^ioDt is 

 broken, or if the application of tlie shoe be imperative,' a Htcely 

 fitted bar shoe can be put on in such a manner as to ''^ remove 

 weight and pressure from tlie seat of the injury or disease. 



In cases of quittor, where no communication exists between 

 the wound and tlie plantar surface of the foot, it will ' be 

 necessary for the practitioner to introduce his probe carefully, 

 and to ascertain the depth and direction of the sinuses ; wlieii 

 he has satisfied himself on this point, the Bistouri cache (zee Fig, 

 76) is to be introduced as deeply into the sinuses as possible. 



Fio. 76. 

 the blade 'Qpencd, and the parts cut as it is dlU'vyR outff2r3& 



