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the operation, and are often called upon to perform it, but as it is 
a comparatively new mode of treatment in this country, and as 
with few exceptions it will be followed with the same result, it 
becomes a duty in American veterinarians, to report all cases of 
a similar nature, in order to induce others to take advantage of 
an operation which enables us to get rid of a diseased process 
often very tedious, and often also very serious, if one takes in con¬ 
sideration the possible complications it may involve if improperly 
treated, and also the long time generally required by other treat¬ 
ment. 
CARTILAGINOUS QUITTOR—REMOVAL OF THE QUITTOR—RECOVERY 
IN THIRTY-FIVE DAYS. 
By J. S. Denslow, Student. 
October 10th, 1882, there was admitted to the Hospital of 
the American Veterinary College, for radical treatment, a light 
grey gelding, coming live years old, sixteen hands one inch high, 
of the Norman Percheron breed, head almost white, with white 
collar marks on the near side of the base of the neck, with the 
history of a chronic incurable lameness of the off hind leg. He 
presented, above the inside quarter of that foot, two large fistu¬ 
lous tracts, from which there was an abundant discharge of pus; 
these fistulous tracts, when probed, admitted the instrument to 
pass down upon the lateral cartilage. The posterior canal was 
smaller than the anterior, which was directed inwards and down¬ 
wards. The diagnosis of cartilaginous quittor was made, with the 
prognosis that as ordinary treatment of more than six months had 
failed to effect any improvement, the operation for the removal 
of the cartilage was the most proper to recommend. 
After poulticing the parts for two days, on the morning of the 
13th October, the animal was thrown on the off-side, the right hind 
leg removed from the hobble, and brought with the rope over the 
near fore-leg, where it was secured. The wall was thinned down 
on the inside quarter, starting from a point corresponding to the 
anterior extremity of the cartilage in an oblique direction down¬ 
wards and backwards, in order to reach the plantar border of the 
wall about one inch from the heel. By an incision made below 
the coronary band with a double sage knife, this was separated 
