Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . rosty weather,quittor is most common in winter. TREATMENT.—The principles governing the treatment of aquittor are those which are applicable to an abscess (p. 79); alwaysremembering that any dead or diseased structures existing in it,should be removed without delay. If the tumour on the coronethas not come to a head, we may stimulate it by rubbing into itan ointment composed of 1 part of biniodide of mercury to 4parts of lard. In case of a deep quittor, it saves time and securesdrainage, to convert the sinus into an o
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . rosty weather,quittor is most common in winter. TREATMENT.—The principles governing the treatment of aquittor are those which are applicable to an abscess (p. 79); alwaysremembering that any dead or diseased structures existing in it,should be removed without delay. If the tumour on the coronethas not come to a head, we may stimulate it by rubbing into itan ointment composed of 1 part of biniodide of mercury to 4parts of lard. In case of a deep quittor, it saves time and securesdrainage, to convert the sinus into an open wound by cutting QUITTOR. 227 down, from the outside of the wall of the hoof, on the inflamedparts, so as to expose them to view, in order that we may, bymeans of antiseptic dressings, induce them to heal cast the animal and put him under chloroform, we shouldcut a vertical opening, through the hoof, just below the quittor,from the coronet to the ground surface of the foot, with a specialsaw or drawing knife (p. 180); and open up the sinus through the. Fig. 76.—Moment at which clicking takes place. division in the hoof, by means of a scalpel or probe-pointed bis-toury, while cutting outwards. We should then syringe out theabscess with an antiseptic solution (67), and treat it the lateral cartilage is diseased, it is as a rule best to removeit entirely. This is a serious operation which I need not describehere. When a cartilage is diseased or dead, it will be of a palepea green or sulphur yellow colour, instead of the white of subsequent, treatment will be that of an abscess (p. 79). 15* 228 DISEASES OF THE FEET. Forging or Clicking. As this habit sometimes causes injury to the foot, and as itmay often be remedied by suitable shoeing; it is not inappropriateto consider it from a veterinary point of view, and not merely asa riding or driving vice. DEFINITION.—Forging or clicking is the act done by the horse,at the trot, when h
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