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QUITTOR. 
School; ^iid my extensive acquaintance w^ith Veterinarians; 
have afforded me opportunities of collecting cases of a very 
conclusive and convincing nature, some of which may not prove 
uninteresting here. 
Case I. In November, 1824, a milkman of St. Leu-Taverny 
wished my father to visit a large cart-horse, lame of the near 
fore leg. Myself a pupil at the time, and it happening during 
the vacation, I accompanied my father. According to the 
owner, a month ago this animal fell in harness, and one of the 
shafts slightly bruised the outer side of the coronet and occa¬ 
sioned a trifling swelling. The animal at this time became 
lame, but had recovered and continued sound for fifteen days ; 
when, after a journey to Paris, the lameness returned. All tu¬ 
mefaction had disappeared ; but a sinus now existed in the side 
of the coronet, level with the anterior border of the cartilage, 
which was straight and deep and took a direction backwards. 
My father conceived that the operation was indispensable. How¬ 
ever, I mentioned to him the procedure recommended by our 
Director of the College, and he determined on making trial of 
it. Being unable to procure in the village what was necessary, 
w^e returned the following day and proceeded with the ap¬ 
plication of sublimate, punctiliously adhering to the princi¬ 
ple of M. Girard. The sinus had been previously dilated with ' 
the actual cautery. The separation of the eschar, w^hich took 
place tw^elve days afterwards, exposed to view at the bottom of 
the sinus a greenish slough about the size of a small pea, which 
was easily extracted with the forceps. Eighteen days from this, 
the sinus, undiminished in extent, had become straight again, 
and a greyish matter issuing from it showed that the caries still 
remained. The operation was now had recourse to; and, fifty- 
five days afterwards, the horse returned to his work. I had left 
home when the operation was performed, so that I did not my¬ 
self see the cartilage; but such was the result communicated 
to me by my father. I have had occasion since to visit the 
same horse : his foot is without any visible deformity, and he 
continues his work from St. Leu to Paris perfectly sound. 
Case II. Ill the autumn of 1826, a farmer of Frepillon, a 
village near Pontoise, show^ed me a little bat-horse he had re¬ 
cently purchased. The animal had a small wound upon the 
inner side of the near hind coronet, which w as situated about 
opposite to the middle of the base of the cartilage. In the 
centre of this abrasion I discovered a fistulous opening, admit¬ 
ting the probe to the depth of five or six lines. Having 
first assured myself of the caries of the cartilage, I insinuated 
a cone of sublimate down to the very bottom of the sinus, and 
secured it there with the aid of tow and ligature. The slough 
