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horn is attributed. Some observers believe these worms to be accidental, 
and do not regard them as primary agents in the production of this disease. 
Sometimes seedy toe is without doubt due to bad shoeing, by which the 
weight-bearing surface of the foot is limited to the wall. The progression of 
the animal is often but not invariably affected by seedy toe, which, it may be 
remarked, constitutes unsoundness. Sometimes lameness is very marked,. 
and this is especially liable to be the case when the cavity becomes 
distended with accumulation of mud and sand. Seedy toe is not difficult to- 
diagnose, as it is generally quite apparent as soon as the smith removes the 
shoe. The emission of the hollow sound when the foot is struck, will 
indicate the extent of the cavity. In these cases the diseased horn should be 
carefully and thoroughly removed, and tow moistened with a preparation of 
carbolic acid, or with ointment of salicylic acid, may be passed into the 
cavity. The foot should be. kept moist by the application of some hoof 
ointment, and the coronet should be mildly blistered with equal parts of lard 
and ointment of red iodide of mercury. The animal may be shod with bar 
shoes. In those cases which follow founder, the hope of recovery is not so- 
greatasin others. In most instances, however, seedy toe is easily dealt with. 
and cured. Toe-clips should be discarded. 
QUITTOR. 
By the term quittor we understand the presence of a diseased channel, 
opening upon the quarters or heels of the coronet, and extending down 
between the walls of the hoof, and the sensitive structures which secrete it. 
Sometimes the channel has but one course, while at other times it has. 
several ramifications. It is to be borne in mind that the quittor does not 
open at first at. the coronet, but appears as a small tumour there, which 
gradually comes to a point and bursts. Quittors are caused by treads ;. 
pricks in shoeing; corns ending in the formation of matter, which cannot 
escape in any other manner, than by passing upwards to the coronet ; or 
indeed by any injury, which ends in matter being formed either in the 
structures of the coronet, or in those within the hoof. Frost-bite of the 
coronet has also been known to lead to quittor. It will thus be seen that 
quittor may commence above, at the coronet, or it may commence below, 
and spread upwards. 
A quittor is recognised by the presence of a hard, hot, and tender 
swelling upon the coronet. On the swelling there are soon seen one or 
more openings, from which is discharged matter of varying consistency, 
‘sometimes .thin, and sometimes thick. If these openings are traced, it will 
be proved that they extend downwards, sometimes to the bottom of the foot. 
Quittors are distinguished from wounds or abscesses, by the presence of the 
little openings, which discharge an unhealthy matter; and also by the 
hardness of the tumour. Lameness is sometimes extreme in cases of quittor, 
and the animals affected with it, which are principally heavy cart-horses, 
often cannot place the foot to the ground. 
