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cannabis gr. xxv, opii 3 ss, aloes §ij to be used during the day. 
The jaws are firmly set, but he sucks some nourishment. Con¬ 
tinue solut. argent, nit. to withers. 
13/A.—01. croton. M. xxv. Give injections of rice water. 
—2 P.M. Ext. cannabis gr. xxv, opii 3 SS, in one injection. 
—5 P.M. he has drunk freely of rice water, and is no worse. 
14/A, 6 A.M. better; drinks freely; dress wound as usual. 
15/A.—Doing well. Continue injections ; dung soft. 
16/A and VIth. —Improving ; he has picked a small quantity 
of grass, and is altogether better. 
18/A.—2.30 A.M. called to see my patient. 1 found him 
down. The sentry heard him knocking about, and, looking in, 
found him on the ground. I continued my treatment through 
the day without success : for on the 
19/A, 3 A.M. he died. I have no hesitation in saying this horse 
was frightened to death. I found the hoofs round the coronets, 
and the heels, eaten away by rats , which infest the place; and I 
have no doubt whatever, that the numbers swarming and nibbling 
round his feet excited him fatally. He was doing well, and 
when I left him, at 9 P.M., I had every hope of a good case. 
TREATMENT OF QUITTOR. 
By John Brown, Veterinary Surgeon, London. 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian 
Dear Sir,—I f you should deem the following remarks on 
quittor of sufficient importance to insert in your valuable pe¬ 
riodical, you are quite welcome to them. 
Quittor has generally been deemed to be a very intractable 
disease; and when we come to consider the various tissues 
entering into the composition of the parts of the leg and foot 
wherein this disease usually occurs, the low vitality in some 
of them, together with their indisposition to take on healthy 
action after disease has taken place, we have no occasion to 
feel surprised. I have seen them in a state of disease continue 
for months in sluggish action; and as soon as one sinus has 
healed up, another has appeared, and thus has the disease gone 
on until either the patience of the owner has been exhausted or 
the horse has sunk from pain under the disease. 
Nevertheless, I believe quittor to be readily cured by the 
simple yet efficient treatment I am about to describe. In the 
first place, I have the shoe taken off, and (supposing the disease 
to be situated at the posterior part of the foot or heel) I cut 
away that part of the hoof, so that there shall be no pressure 
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