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If the woiiud is slow to beal it will be found of advantage to change 

 the remedies used every few days, for after a time a remedy seems to 

 lose its stimulating effect upon the slow-growing granulations. 



If the wound is pale in color, the granulations transparent and glis- 

 tening, the tincture of aloes, tincture of gentian, or the spirits of cam- 

 phor may do best. 



When the sore is red in color and healing rapidly an ointment made 

 of 1 part of carbolic acid to 40 parts of cosmoline or vaseline is all that 

 is needed. 



If the granulations continue to grow until a tumor is formed, which 

 lirojects beyond the surrounding skin, it should be cut off with a sharp, 

 clean knife, the foot poulticed for twenty-four hours, after which the 

 wound is to be well cauterized daily with lunar caustic and the baud- 

 ages applied with great firmness. 



The question as to how often the dressings should be renewed must 

 be determined by the condition of the wound, etc. If the sore is sup- 

 l^uratiug freely it will be necessary to renew the dressing every twenty- 

 four or forty-eight hours. If the discharge is small in quantity and the 

 patient comfortable the dressing may be left on for several days ; in 

 fact, the less often the wound is disturbed the better, in so long as the 

 healing process is healthy. When the sore commences to skin over the 

 edges should be lightly touched with the lunar caustic at each dressing. 

 The patient may now be given a little exercise tlaily, but the bandages 

 must be kept on until the wound is entirely healed. 



TENDINOUS QUITTOR. 



This form of quittor differs from the cutaneous in tbat it not only 

 affects the skin and subcutaneous tissues, but involves, also, the ten- 

 dons of the leg, the ligaments of the joints, and, in many cases, the bones 

 of the foot as well. 



Fortunately this form of quittor is less common than the preceding; 

 yet any case beginning as simple cutaneous quittor may, at any time 

 during its course, become complicated by the death of some part of the 

 tendons by gangrene of the ligaments, sloughing of the coronary band, 

 caries of the bones, or inflammation accompanied by suppuration of 

 the synovial sacs and joints, thereby converting a simple quittor into 

 one which will, iu all probability, either destroy the patient's life or 

 maim him for all time. 



Causes. — Tendinous quittor is caused by the same iujuries and in- 

 fluences that produce the simple form. Zundel believes it to be a not 

 infrequent accompaniment of distemper. In my own experience I have 

 seen nothing to verify this belief, but I am satisfied that young animals 

 are more liable to have tendinous quittor than older ones, and that they 

 are much more likely to make a good recovery. 



8inni)toms. — When a case of simi^le quittor is transformed into the 

 tendinous variety the development of the complications is announced 



