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5 pounds from the off-foot and 4i pounds from the near. 

 Its structure was fibrous tissue, almost as firm and hard as 

 cartilage, and with no appearance of malignancy. 



' The after-treatment consisted simply of fresh dry 

 dressings — copper, sulphate, zinc sulphate, and calamine, 

 equal parts — applied every third or fourth day, after first 

 bathing the feet in a shallow tub of warm antiseptic water. 



' At the end of eight or ten weeks a fairly presentable 

 appearance existed. The greater part of what had been 

 raw surface was covered with healthy skin, and the re- 

 mainder had become dry and horny.' * 



A further form of chronic coronitis is that shown in 

 Fig. 113. 



This condition is commonly the result of a severe and 

 jagged tread with the calkin, and takes the form of an 

 ulcerous and excessively granulating wound. As time goes 

 on the granulations become hard and horny-looking, and 

 their fibrous tissue as hard and unyielding as tendon or 

 cartilage. 



These if treated in the early stages with repeated dressings 

 of caustic, or, if very exuberant, the use of the knife, usually 

 yield to treatment. If neglected until the condition de- 

 picted in the figure is arrived at, then treatment, as a rule, 

 is of no avail. Neither is treatment of any use if any great 

 loss of the coronary cushion has occurred. 



D. FALSE QUARTER. 



Definition. — False quarter is the term applied to that 

 condition of the horn of the quarter in which, owing to 

 disease or injury of the coronet, the wall is grown in a 

 manner that is incomplete. 



Symptoms. — This condition of the foot appears as a gap 

 or shallow indentation, narrow or wide, in the thickness of 

 the wall, with its length in the direction of the horn fibres. 

 By this we do not mean that the sensitive laminae are bared 

 and exposed. Horn of a sort there is, and with this the 

 sensitive structures are covered. Running down the centre 

 * Veterinary Record, vol. xiv., p. 201 (C. Cunningham, M.R.C.V.S.). 



