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wound with a small syringe two or three times a day must 

 be resorted to. For bad cases of quittor the following is 

 the best : Take of — 



Bi-chloride of mercury, pulverized - One drachm. 



Hydro-chloric acid - - - Five drops. 



Spirits of wine _ _ _ One ounce. 



Dissolve the mercury in the acid, then add the spirits of 

 wine. 



For quittors that are not very serious, or of long standing, 

 the following will do very well : Take of — 



Carbolic acid - - - One drachm. 



Water - - - - One ounce. 



Either of these remedies must be carefully injected with 

 a small syringe into the openings two or three times a day. 

 The prescription recommended for pricked foot is also an 

 excellent mild preparation for ordinary quittors. 



The ill consequences of quittors are many, but one of the 

 evils to be apprehended is the injury of the coronary sub- 

 stance. When this disease has been long continued and 

 accompanied by much sloughing, the coronary band and 

 the vascular tissue underneath it — from which latter the 

 horn is secreted — is often so injured that it secretes a defi- 

 cient quantity of soft, weak horn, which lesion produces 

 what is known as " false quarter." When this state of things 

 supervenes it renders the creature unfit for anything except 

 slow work, for it is almost incurable. The only hope then 

 is occasionally to mildly blister the coronet, and have a shoe 

 adapted to the injured state of the foot. 



SANDCRACK. 



Cause. — This name is given to a fissure or crack in the 

 wall of the hoof; this split or fracture of the horny fibres of 

 the hoof extends generally from above downwards, and is 

 chiefly the result of external violence or injury of some kind. 

 In this respect it differs from false quarter, for there may be 



