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ment, so as to render it incapable of afterwards secreting 
healthy horn. 
QUITTOR. 
A wound of the coronet, whether it proceeds from a tread, 
or otherwise, should be carefully and immediately attended 
to; because if sand or gravel get into the wound, it is 
likely to produce those deep-seated ulcerations that are 
termed pipes or sinuses , which constitute the disease called 
quittor. 
But it may also proceed from any wound of the foot, and 
in any portion of it. In all ulcers matter is secreted, and 
the part affected cannot possibly heal until the matter is 
discharged. In wounds of the foot, there is much difficulty 
in the matter proceeding from ulceration finding its way 
from under the hoof, which covers the foot with its various 
complicated parts. The consequence is, it accumulates 
under the hoof until it has increased to such an extent that 
it must find escape in some way ; and frequently forces itself 
out in all directions, separating the little fleshy plates from 
their connexion with the horny ones of the crust; or dis¬ 
uniting the fleshy sole from the horny one ; and in extreme 
cases eats its way deeply into the internal parts of the foot, 
forming pipes or sinuses, which run in all directions. 
If quittor arises from a wound in the lower portion of 
the foot, the matter which is collected in it after the ulcer 
has ripened being confined there, issues from it, and 
induces a separation between the horny and fleshy sole ; 
and having accumulated in considerable quantity, at length 
discharges itself at the coronet, generally close to the 
quarter. This, however, does not manifest itself to any 
extent, as both the aperture and quantity of matter which 
oozes out are apparently so insignificant, that they would 
