74 OF THE DISEASES 



destroyed. As the crust is secreted from the coro- 

 nary band, it necessarily follows that there must 

 be a break or separation in the horn immediately 

 below the place where the injury to the secreting 

 surface has occurred. This separation is called 

 " false quarter." 



The disease in the coronary band is usually the 

 result of neglected corns, or of sandcrack, or of 

 quittor, or of any external injury sufficient to pro- 

 duce violent inflammation in the secreting sub- 

 stance and consequent arrest of its secretions. 



As the secreting surface, when once destroyed, 

 cannot be restored, there is no cure, properly so 

 called, for false quarter. The treatment will consist 

 in restricting the disease within the narrowest 

 possible limits, and in adopting such measures of 

 relief as may enable us most speedily again to work 

 the animal. 



As the treatment of those diseases which ter- 

 minate in false quarter has already been given, we 

 have now only to deal with the result, namely, the 

 permanent separation in the crust. 



The earlier stage is generally accompanied with 

 lameness, and the horse must be rested, and, if not 

 in very low condition, had better be given a dose 

 of physic, which will tend to allay any irritability. 

 The detached portion of the horn on the sides of 

 the fissure must be removed, and the fissure itself 

 kept scrupulously clean, for any admission of dirt 



