ittor
should be the removal of all exciting causes. Crowding animals into
small corrals and stables, where injuries to the coronet are likely to
happen from trampling, especially among unbroken range horses, must be
avoided as much as possible.

Watering places accessible without having to wade through mud should be
provided. In towns, where the mud or dust is largely impregnated with
mineral products, it is not possible to adopt complete preventive
measures. Much can be done, however, by careful cleansing of the feet
and legs as soon as the animal returns from work. Warm water should be
used to remove the mud and dirt, after which the parts are to be
thoroughly dried with soft cloths.

The means which are to be adopted for the cure of cutaneous quittor vary
with the stage of the disease at the time the case is presented for
treatment. If the case is seen early--that is, before any of the signs
of suppuration have developed--the affected foot is to be placed under a
constant stream of cold water, with the object of arresting a further
extension of the inflammatory process. To accomplish this, put the
patient in slings in a narrow stall having a slat or open floor. Bandage
the foot and leg to the knee or hock, as the case may be, with flannel
bandages loosely applied. Set a tub or barrel filled with cold water
above the patient, and by the use of a small rubber hose of sufficient
length make a siphon which will carry the water from the bottom of the
tub to the leg at the top of the bandage. The stream of water should be
quite small, and is to be continued until the inflammation has entirety
subsided or until the presence of pus can be detected in the tumor. When
suppuration has commenced, the process should be aided by the use of
warm baths and poultices of lineseed meal or boiled turnips. If the
tumor is of rapid growth, accompanied with intense pain, relief is
obtained and sloughing largely limited by a free incision of the parts.
The incision should be vertical and deep into the tumor, care being
taken not to divide the coronary band entirely. If the tumor is large,
more than one incision may be necessary.

The foot should now be placed in a warm bath for half an hour or longer
and then poulticed. The hemorrhage produced by the cutting and
encouraged by the warm bath is generally very copious and soon gives
relief to the overtension of the parts.

In other cases it will be found that suppuration is well under way,