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of the small pastern bone. The wound healed up, but the horse 
continued lame for some time. 
1 may now state a case or two, shewing the efficacy of seton in 
quittor. A chestnut gelding, the property of a nobleman, and called 
Young Carlton, which was purchased in England as a hunter 
for £250, happened to meet with an accident on the inner coro- 
net of the near hind foot. Little attention was paid to it, as it 
put on no particular bad appearance, until within two days 
before I was called to see him. After examining, however, the 
sore carefully with the probe, I found it extended two or three 
inches into the foot. I informed the groom that it w r as a very 
bad case, and that it would require to be setoned, which was 
agreed to. But as the coronet by this time was considerably 
enlarged, and painful to the touch, and the horse was of a very 
irritable disposition, the foot was poulticed for four of five days, 
and a dose of medicine exhibited. On the sixth day after this 
he was setoned in the manner formerly described. The poultice 
was continued for some days, the seton shifted, and occasionally 
dressed with a weak solution of zinc. In five weeks after the 
insertion of the seton the wound was healed : he was perfectly 
sound, and was exercised with the other horses. For three 
years afterwards he was hunted, and was then sold for £150 
sterling to a dealer, who disposed of him to some gentleman in 
the North. 
The next case was that of a black gelding, which Mr. Scott, 
of the Waterloo Hotel, had purchased of a horse-dealer for a 
guinea. He was dead lame, had a bad quittor on the near hind 
foot, the coronet was very much enlarged, and the sore dis- 
charged a good deal of matter. He suffered very great pain, 
and was down in condition. He was only six years old, 
and well-shaped. Mr. Scott learned that he had been under 
the care of some farrier for two months, and had got no better. 
Being informed that setons generally cured such cases, he re- 
quested me to seton him. I examined the sinuses, and found 
them to run right and left, and the whole inner quarter of the 
foot was one mass of disease. Having removed the shoe, and 
prepared the foot, I had him cast, and inserted two setons, one 
commencing at the posterior part of the inner heel and termi- 
nating at the inner angle of the heel, at its junction with the 
crust, the other running a little obliquely, passing in and out 
through the lamina and crust, four inches from the upper part of 
the coronet. In six weeks he was quite sound ; and the sores 
having healed up, he was put to run as a leader in the mail, and 
so well did he do his work, that the owner informed me he 
would not take £25 for him. 
