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EXCISION OF LATERAL CARTILAGE IN QUITTOR. 
to yield under the pressure of the thumb. This avoids the necessity of 
shipping the wall, which is very painful. The parts are then soaked in 
sublimate, and if operation should not immediately follow, the hoof may 
be surrounded with sublimate wood-wool, and kept wet with sublimate 
solution for twenty-four hours. 
I he horse is cast, and the diseased foot firmly tied to the cannon bone 
of the diagonal upper limb, i.e., in disease of the internal lateral cartilage 
of the left front foot, that foot would be tied to the right hind limb. An 
Esmaich s bandage is then applied from the coronet to the knee, the 
diessing removed, and the foot rinsed with sublimate solution. 
An incision is next made with a special curved knife (see fig. BOO), 
Fig. 301.— Operation for quittor. The whole of the lateral cartilage has been removed. 
following the lower border of the coronary band, and corresponding 
to the size of the cartilage: any horn which has been left at this point 
is removed. The object of this incision is to separate the coronary hand 
from the sensitive structures of the wall, with which it is continuous. 
The incision should not at this stage extend beyond the inner surface of 
the coronary band, and particular care must be taken not to divide the 
band, especially near the bulb of the heel. 
The edge of the partially-divided coronary band is now drawn upwards 
with one or more retractors, and the double-edged knife passed cautiously 
in a perpendicular direction between the coronary band and the face of 
the cartilage so as to separate the two structures. The coronary band 
is then stripped off the face of the cartilage by gently rocking the knife 
