American Veterinary Review, 
i 
JULY, 1883. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THE HORSE’S FOOT. 
By A. Zundel. 
(Continued from page 102.) 
CARTILAGINOUS QUITTOK. 
I.— SymfJtoms .—A division has been made of an acute and a 
chronic form of this disease. Under the first name, is considered 
the earlier period of the affection, that in which there is inflam¬ 
mation of the cartilage and painful swelling of the part, and 
when the caries or necrosis of the fibro-cartilage is not yet estab¬ 
lished ; or if there is a wound, when it does not yet granulate, 
and the suppuration, if it exists, is very slight. Chronic javart 
would be that in which the partial and progressive mortification 
of the fibro-cartilage ’ exists; for, as Renault has said, it is the 
ordinary termination of fibro-chondritis. 
When free from serious complication, the disease is generally 
accompanied with but little lameness; sometimes there is almost 
none, and animals can be kept at work, especially at a slow gait; 
but if made to trot, the horse will show lameness. It is especially 
when the quittor exists in the posterior parts, that the inflamma- 
