Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ication of oil of a suppurating corn does not readily heal, pass a red-hot ironinto it and freely burn the diseased parts. If the discharge hasa stinking smell, we may conclude that the pedal bone or lateralcartilages are involved; in which case, the part should be openedout, the diseased portions removed, and the wound antiseptically(p. 67, et seq.) attended to. If quittor be present, it should bespecially treated. After an ordinary corn has been examined, itis well to apply a three-quarter shoe (Fig. 7
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ication of oil of a suppurating corn does not readily heal, pass a red-hot ironinto it and freely burn the diseased parts. If the discharge hasa stinking smell, we may conclude that the pedal bone or lateralcartilages are involved; in which case, the part should be openedout, the diseased portions removed, and the wound antiseptically(p. 67, et seq.) attended to. If quittor be present, it should bespecially treated. After an ordinary corn has been examined, itis well to apply a three-quarter shoe (Fig. 74), or a bar shoe ofthe form shown in Fig 52 (p. 177), if the frog is strong enoughto bear the pressure, so that all weight may be taken off the foot COENS. 225 near the seat of the corn; for no matter how carefully the shoeis applied, the injured part will be jarred if the otherwise un-supported web rests on any part of the bar or wall near the my own practice, I always use a three-quarter shoe for anordinary corn, and, as a great rule, find, even when the animal. ^^S IS—Bar-shoe for foot with corns on both sides. has been decidedly lame from the corn, that he will go levelnext day, if not immediately after the three-quarter shoe hasbeen put on, and will need no further treatment beyond allowingthe corn to grow down, and keeping pressure off the part. The bar shoe shown in Fig. 75, is excellent for a case in whichthere is a corn both on the inside and on the outside of the foot. 15 22^ DISEASES OF THE P^EET. Quittor (^Fistula at the Coronet^. DEFINITION, NATURE, AND SYMPTOMS.—A quittor is anabscess consisting of one or more canals which open or tend to openat the coronet and which extend between the wall of the hoof andpedal bone. It appears as a hard, hot, and painful swelling on thecoronet, when that part is the seat of the exciting injury. If thecause has been a prick or su^^purating corn, it will generally firstshow its presence by a moist condition of the skin
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