OPERATIONS—QUITTOR. 463 
saturated with chloride of zinc dissolved in spirits of wine, one scruple 
to the ounce. Put one of these into each sinus, and let the horse up. 
In three days such of the pieces of tow as have not been removed by 
the sloughing process may be taken from the wounds, and the foot sim- 
ply dressed with chloride of zinc and water, one grain to the ounce, 
squeezed from a sponge, as in the case of open joint. 
THE QUARTER RASPED BENEATH THE OPENING OF THE SINUSES OF A QUITTOR BEING OPERATED 
A QUITTOR, UPON. 
This operation, when described, reads abhorrent; but it is really most 
humane. It is a common thing for a horse to be three, or even six 
months under treatment, on account of an ordinary quittor. During 
the entire space, the foot—the tenderest part of the horse’s body—is 
burned with violent caustics, and has had heated wires thrust down its 
sinuses. By the operation proposed, the affair is settled in a few 
minutes. The horse seldom evinces much sensibility while the knife is 
being employed; in three days the animal is so far recovered as to 
allow the diseased member almost to be left to nature. The horse 
should, however, on no account do any work before the hoof is in some 
measure restored. Until the outer covering of dark horn has grown 
down, a bar shoe, well eased off the diseased quarter, should be worn. 
When the hoof is reproduced, instead of false quarter or other deform- 
ities, the usual results of quittor, it is all but impossible to decide which 
has been the affected foot, and which was operated upon. 
The author has now stated at length that treatment which the horse 
for its own sake deserves, and which, for the honor of the being whom 
it serves, the animal should receive. He has, designedly, rather appealed 
