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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.R.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.R.C.V.S8.,+ says: ‘In a great 
number of cases I have removed a } 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 } says: ‘I do not spare the coronary 
band or sensitive lamine 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 lamine has 
not the untoward consequences so much dreaded in former 
days.’ 
Mr. John Davidson, M.R.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 Record, vol. v., p. 407. 
+ Ibid. t Ibid., p. 714. 
§ Ibid., vol. xiv., p. 769. 
