Quittor invariably points to the presence of an internal ulcer, abscess, or some other irritating cause, the discharge from which, accumulating under the hard hoof, slowly works its way to the surface.
The origin of quittor is generally some injury to the hoof, such as a corn, a prick, or an inequality of tread.
Practical hints to be borne in mind when attempting to cure quittor by means of injections are these: If the fistulas are numerous, the fluid should be injected into their various orifices.
A probe or a director passed beneath the overhanging ledge of horn reveals sometimes a fissure of 1 inch or considerably more in depth, and quittor is diagnosed.
In complicated sand-crack, suppurating corn, or in ordinary pricked foot quittor may be a sequel.
In its early stages the condition of simple or cutaneous quittor is really a condition of acute coronitis (see p.
Sub-horny quittor may also arise without original injury at all to the coronet.
When dealing with sinuous wounds of the foot, another favourite mode of applying dressings is by means of the syringe, and no better instrument for all cases can be found than that known as a quittor syringe (Fig.
Should our case of quittor be complicated by caries of the bone, this must, where possible, be scraped or curetted until the whole of the diseased portion is removed, and a healthy surface is left.
With the escape of the pus at the coronet the quittor is fully formed.
By indicating quittor as a complication of coronitis, however, we denote the more serious form of this disease, in which the wound has taken on a sinuous character, and conducted pus to invasion of the lateral cartilage.
On the other hand, simple or cutaneous quittor may occur without ascertainable cause.
Spavin, ringbone, splints, quittor and many other anomalous conditions may all be observed from certain proper angles.
Footnote 33: Quittorand Its Treatment by the Hughes Method, J.
Where there is dependable history or other evidence of the chronicity of an infectious inflammation of the kind, quittor is easily identified.
Quittor is readily diagnosed on sight in many instances.
Never inject a quittor if considerable lameness is present.
As a rule a Quittor develops slowly and is more or less painful during the first stages.
Quittor presents the characteristic tubular passages of a fistula and may, therefore, be considered and treated as fistula of the foot.
In my own experience I have seen nothing to verify this belief, but I am convinced that young animals are more liable to have tendinous quittor than older ones, and that they are much more likely to make a good recovery.
In the city of Montreal quittor is said to be very common in the early springtime, when the streets are muddy from the melting snow and ice.
This form of quittor differs from the cutaneous in that it not only affects the skin and subcutaneous tissues, but involves also the tendons of the leg, the ligaments of the joints, and, in many cases, the bones of the foot as well.
Prior to the development of a quittor there is always swelling at the coronet, accompanied with heat and pain.
This form of quittor is often complicated with the tendinous and subhorny quittors by an extension of the sloughing process.
When a case of simple quittor is transformed into the tendinous variety the change is announced by a sudden increase in the severity of all the symptoms.
But no matter what treatment is adopted, a large percentage of the cases of tendinous quittor fail to make good recoveries.
When a quittor becomes fully established it should be treated precisely as a fistula situated in any other part of the body; that is, the sinuses should all be opened from their lowest extremities, so as to afford constant drainage.
Wounds in the heel and in the posterior parts of the frog are attended with but little danger, unless they are so deep as to injure the lateral cartilages, when quittor may follow.
When cartilaginous quittor happens as a complication of suppurative corn, or from punctured wounds of the foot, the fistulous tract may open alone at the point of injury on the sole.
Trasbot recites a case in which a set of hobbles, which had been used on an animal suffering from variola, were used on a horse for a quittor operation and transmitted the disease, which developed on the edges of the wound.
But all cases of tendinous quittor are by no means so complicated as this one was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quittor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
