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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Veterinary Society was read, but no action was taken at the 
meeting. 
Dr. Glass then read an essay on “ Plethora in Dogs.” This 
lie attributed to many causes, the most important being over¬ 
feeding, insufficient exercise, etc. The subject was well handled, 
and being a new heading for a common trouble, was found inter¬ 
esting. 
W . Horace Hoskins, Secretary. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CARTILAGINOUS QUITTOR. 
By W. Cutting, Y.S. (Rochester). 
Sept. 24, 1883. 
Mr. Editor —I beg to report to you another case of cartila¬ 
ginous quittor, with its treatment and cure. 
On the 13th of August last 1 was called to a black mare at 
the Rapids Village, near this city. I found the mare suffering 
with quittor on the off fore foot. The foot had been poulticed 
by Mr. Burns, the owner, as farmers frequently do, with cow 
manure. The discharge from the several wounds of the heel and 
the two openings on the side of the foot at the anterior part of 
the inner cartilage was very copious and very foetid. I first 
cleansed the foot with soap and warm water, and then passed the 
probe in at one of the openings of the heel to the bone. There 
seemed to be. quite a cavity, at least two inches in depth. I 
could pass the probe freely on either side of the lateral cartilage. 
The openings on the side of the foot were not far apart, although 
they seemed to me to have been separate abcesses. I pared away 
the superfluous horn from the heel, but found no opening from 
the sole of the foot, although the animal had an old seedy corn. 
I then dressed the foot by injecting into the cavity from one of 
the openings in the heel, using a small metallic syringe, one 
drachm of the “ 01 Eucalyptol E. Follis,”* full strength, and 
* Sanders & Sons, of Sandhurst, Australia, claim to be the discoverers, and 
are the manufacturers and protected proprietors of this medicine. 
