CHAP. II.] QUITTOR. 339 



QUITTOR 



Is a disease of the foot, at the coronet, but is so 

 decidedly fistulous, that we choose to treat of it in 

 this place, rather than in the chapter devoted to the 

 foot in general, that the student may more readily 

 remember the general observations prefixed to this 

 whole class of diseases, at page 305, &c. 



Cause. — A tread which the horse inflicts on 

 itself, for the most part, seeing that it generally 

 occurs on the inside of the foot. This tread or 

 bruise may either be inflicted upon the coronet, or 

 lower down, by over-reaching, or even at the sole ; 

 by taking up a stone or other hard substance ; also 

 by a prick or blow in shoeing. According to our 

 view of the construction of the foot, [Book hi. 

 chap, i.] and the manner in which the hoof is reno- 

 vated by the supply of a glutinous secretion from 

 below, ascending to the coronet for that purpose, 

 it will be seen that the injury, however trivial 

 originally, would occasion some of the finer ves- 

 sels engaged in carrying on this supply to suspend 

 their functions awhile ; the detention of this secre- 

 tion would of course cause a morbid affection at 

 that place, and when at length it ascends to the 

 coronet for the supply of new hoof, it would be 

 unfit for that purpose. It remains there, and oc- 

 casions inflammation, the formation of matter, and 

 the whole train of fistulous symptoms, with a sore 

 towards the hind part of the coronet. 



Cure, — The sore is always very small, but ad- 



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