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suitable dressing, and wrapped in a linen bandage or clean 
bag. If unable to use the bath, then antiseptic solutions of 
more than moderate strength should be freely applied to the 
wound and the adjacent parts, a carbolized or other anti- 
septic pad placed over it, and the bandage adjusted as before. 
Repeated injuries to the cartilages, even if not attended 
with an actual wound, are apt to bring about their ossification 
and end in the formation of side-bones. 
B. QUITTOR. 
Definition.—A fistulous wound of the foot, usually opening 
at the coronet, and variously complicated according to the 
structures invaded by its contained pus. For the reason 
that quittor is in every-day veterinary nomenclature usually 
“associated with necrosis or other abnormal condition of the 
lateral cartilage, we include its description in this chapter. 
Classification.—It has been customary with Continental 
authors to classify quittor according to the extent and position 
of the diseased process. There were thus distinguished : 
(a) The Simple or Cutaneous Quittor, in which had occurred 
nothing more than necrosis of a portion of the coronary skin 
and the structures immediately underlying it—that is, the 
superficial portion of the coronary cushion. 
(b) The Tendinous Quittor, in which not only the imme- 
diately subcutaneous tissues were attacked, but also portions 
of tendon and of ligament. 
(c) The Sub-horny Quittor, in which the diseased process 
had invaded the deeper portions of the coronary cushion, 
and continued a downward course until the laminal tissue 
below the upper margin of the wall was involved, or any 
other case, no matter what the starting-point, in which pus 
existed within the horny box and was discharging itself by 
a fistulous opening. 
(d) The Cartilaginous Quittor, in which a portion of the 
lateral cartilage had become attacked and rendered necrotic. 
We believe that—in this country, at any rate—the word 
‘ quittor’ is usually held to indicate one or other of the two 
