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the podophyllous tissue. The diseased tissue being exposed, all 
that is of bad appearance is removed, the carious portion being 
freely taken off. An ordinary dressing of oakum with diluted 
alcohol, or any other drug, kept in place with a light shoe or 
slipper, entire or truncated, as the case requires, is then applied. 
As for all wounds of the foot, the dressing needs only to be 
changed when the pus accumulated under the oakum or other 
peculiar conditions indicate it. It is true that changing the dress¬ 
ing is an effective means of cleansing the wound, but it has also 
the inconvenience of also irritating it, and especially at the be¬ 
ginning may tend to interrupt the natural process of repair. It 
is of advantage, after the first dressings, to change them as in¬ 
frequently as possible. In this way hemorrhages, which may 
always be looked for, are avoided. This is a point of the first im¬ 
portance. It has been proved that even in operations where a por¬ 
tion of the wall has been removed, a dressing left on for from 
fifteen to twenty days without removal, was followed by rapid 
recovery, the new hoof growing under the oakum without sup¬ 
puration. It is useless to probe or wipe out the surface of the 
wound. On the second dressing, that is, after a few days, the 
parts begin to be covered with numerous white points, which are 
so many rudiments of hoof. These, which at first are soft, white 
and isolated, gather together by degrees, at first unite into a thin 
layer, soft and yellowish. This becomes hard and thick ; it is the 
hoof secreted by the laminae, which, little by little, unites with that 
coming from the coronary band. Excessive granulations or proud 
flesh are removed in the ordinary way. 
D.— Cartilaginous Quittor. — llufknorpeljister, (German)— 
(improperly called sub-horny quittor by Lafosse, Jr. ; coronary 
quittor of Vitet; fibro-chondritis of the third phalanx, by Yatel; 
sub-horny cartilaginous quittor of Girard; quittor proper of Del- 
wart). This form of quittor is peculiar to solipeds, they being 
the only animals which have fibro-cartilage on the os pedis. 
These fibro-cartilages are two pieces, which, with the plan¬ 
tar cushion, complete the os pedis and form the base of the heels, 
each representing a piece flattened sideway, parallelogram in 
shape, and extending posteriorly to the coffin bone. Their external 
