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trouble beyond a slight deformity of the parts beneath. 

 The sensitive structures become sufficiently covered with 

 horn, and the animal in nearly every case is returned to 

 work, while in a great many instances he may also trot 

 perfectly sound. 



Simple though the operation may appear, and apparently 

 rough in its method, it is nevertheless successful in effecting 

 a cure in cases where blisters, plugging, injections, and 

 other means have failed. 



Mr. W. Dacre, M.E.C.V.S.,* after reading an article on 

 the operation before the members of the Lancashire 

 Veterinary Medical Association, says : ' My observations 

 have not been based on a single case, and having had nine 

 of them, and all of them successful, I felt it to be my duty 

 to bring this subject before the Society.' 



Mr. T. W. Thompson, M.E.C.V.S.,t says: 'In a great 

 number of cases I have removed a h inch of the coronary 

 band. ... I have performed the operation a great number 

 of times, and have never seen a foot that has been damaged 

 by it.' 



Professor Macqueen I says : ' I do not spare the coronary 

 band or sensitive laminae when I find those parts diseased. 

 I do not unnecessarily damage those structures. At the 

 same time, I am confident that excision of a piece of the 

 coronary band or removal of a few sensitive laminae has 

 not the untoward consequences so much dreaded in former 

 days.' 



Mr. John Davidson, M.E.C.V.S.,§ says: 'The treatment 

 described, if carefully carried out and details attended to, 

 will be found a success in dealing with the majority of 

 cases of quittor. If I may be permitted to say so, without 

 being considered boastful, I have yet to see the first case 

 that has resisted the treatment.' 



Should our case of quittor be complicated by caries of 

 the bone, this must, where possible, be scraped or curetted 



* Veterinary Becord, vol. v., p. 407. 



t Ihid. 1 IhuL, p. 714. 



^ Ibid., vol. xiv., p. 769. 



