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horn is attributed. Some observers believe these worms to be accidental, 

 and do not regard them as primary agents in the production of this disease. 

 Sometimes seedy toe is without doubt due to bad shoeing, by which the 

 weight-bearing surface of the foot is limited to the wall. The progression of 

 the animal is often but not invariably affected by seedy toe, which, it may be 

 remarked, constitutes unsoundness. Sometimes lameness is very marked, 

 and this is especially liable to be the case when the cavity becomes 

 distended with accumulation of mud and sand. Seedy toe is not difficult to 

 diagnose, as it is generally quite apparent as soon as the smith removes the 

 shoe. The emission of the hollow sound when the foot is struck, will 

 indicate the extent of the cavity. In these cases the diseased horn should be 

 careftilly and thoroughly 7-einoved., and tow moistened with a preparation of 

 carbolic acid, or with ointment of salicylic acid, may be passed into the 

 cavity. The foot should be kept moist by the application of some hoof 

 ointment, and the coronet should be mildly blistered with equal parts of lard 

 and ointment of red iodide of mercury. The animal may be shod with bar 

 shoes. In those cases which follow founder, the hope of recovery is not so 

 great as in others. In most instances, however, seedy toe is easily dealt with 

 and cured. Toe-clips should be discarded. 



QUITTOR. 

 By the term quittor we understand the presence of a diseased channel, 

 opening upon the quarters or heels of the coronet, and extending down 

 between the walls of the hoof, and the sensitive structures which secrete it. 

 Sometimes the channel has but one course, while at other times it has 

 several ramifications. It is to be borne in mind that the quittor does not 

 open at first at the coronet, but appears as a small tumour there, which 

 gradually comes to a point and bursts. Quittors are caused by treads ; 

 pricks in shoeing ; corns ending in the formation of matter, which cannot 

 escape in any other manner, than by passing upwards to the coronet ; or 

 indeed by any injury, which ends in matter being formed either in the 

 structures of the coronet, or in those within the hoof. Frost-bite of the 

 coronet has also been known to lead to quittor. It will thus be seen that 

 quittor may commence above, at the coronet, or it may commence below, 

 and spread upwards. 



A quittor is recognised by the presence of a hard, hot, and tender 

 swelling upon the coronet. On the swelling there are soon seen one or 

 more openings, from which is discharged matter of varying consistency, 

 sometimes thin, and sometimes thick. If these openings are traced, it will 

 be proved that they extend downwards, sometimes to the bottom of the foot. 

 Quittors are distinguished from wounds or abscesses, by the presence of the 

 little openings, which discharge an unhealthy matter ; and also by the 

 hardness of the tumour. Lameness is sometimes extreme in cases of quittor, 

 and the animals affected with it, which are principally heavy cart-horses, 

 often cannot place the foot to the ground. 



