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5 pounds from the off-foot and 44 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. 118. 
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 lamin 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.). 
