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verdegris, rolled up in thin blotting or silver 

 paper. Tiiis, though apparently a severe re- 

 medy, will be found very effectual. Sublimate 

 and arsenic have been strongly recommended 

 as remedies for the quittor; indeed it is pro- 

 bable that any caustic application would effect 

 a cure ; but I have succeeded so well with the 

 crystallized verdegris, that I have not been 

 induced to try those medicines. When a corn 

 has been neglected and suffered to break out 

 at the coronet, or when the foot has been 

 wounded, or pricked, as it is termed by the 

 farrier, in shoeing, and this is not discovered 

 until matter appears at the coronet; though 

 these may be considered as cases of quittor, a 

 different treatment is required from that we 

 have just described. In these cases the cure 

 greatly depends on making an opening for the 

 matter in the bottom of the foot, where the 

 nail which inflicted the injury entered; or if 

 produced by a corn, the opening must be 

 made in the angle between the bar and crust, 

 at e, Fig. 2, Plate 1. The best dressing on 

 these occasions is the compound tincture of 

 benzoin and digestive ointment: a poultice is 

 •sometimes required to soften the horny mat- 



