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suitable dressing, and wrapped in a linen bandage or clean 

 bag. If unable to use the bath, then antiseptic solutions of 

 more than moderate strength should be freely applied to the 

 wound and the adjacent parts, a carbolized or other anti- 

 septic pad placed over it, and the bandage adjusted as before. 

 Repeated injuries to the cartilages, even if not attended 

 with an actual wound, are apt to bring about their ossifica- 

 tion and end in the formation of side-bones. 



B. QUITTOR. 



Definition. — A fistulous wound of the foot, usually opening 

 at the coronet, and variously complicated according to the 

 structures invaded by its contained pus. For the reason 

 that quittor is in every-day veterinary nomenclature usually 

 associated with necrosis or other abnormal condition of the 

 lateral cartilage, we include its description in this chapter. 



Classification. — It has been customary with Continental 

 authors to classify quittor according to the extent and posi- 

 tion of the diseased process. There were thus distinguished : 



(a) The Simple or Cutaneous Quittor, in which had oc- 

 curred nothing more than necrosis of a portion of the 

 coronary skin and the structures immediately underlying it — 

 that is, the superficial portion of the coronary cushion. 



(b) The Tendinous Quittor, in which not only the imme- 

 diately subcutaneous tissues were attacked, but also portions 

 of tendon and of ligament. 



(c) The Sub-horny Quittor, in which the diseased process 

 had invaded the deeper portions of the coronary cushion, 

 and continued a downward course until the laminal tissue 

 below the upper margin of the wall was involved, or any 

 other case, no matter what the starting-point, in which pus 

 existed within the horny box and was discharging itself by 

 a fistulous opening. 



(d) The Cartilaginous Quittor, in which a portion of the 

 lateral cartilage had become attached and rendered necrotic. 



We believe that — in this country, at any rate — the word 

 ' quittor ' is usually held to indicate one or other of the two 



