quittors

In the country, where quittors are not so frequently met as in urban practice, the Merillat operation is preferable in all cases.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

This form of quittor is often complicated with the tendinous and subhorny quittors by an extension of the sloughing process.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

For convenience of consideration quittors may be divided into four classes, as suggested by Girard: (1) Cutaneous quittor, which is known also as simple quittor, skin quittor, and carbuncle of the coronet; (2) tendinous quittor; (3) subhorny quittor; and (4) cartilaginous quittor.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

The tendons may soften and rupture, the hoof may slough off, quittors develop, or sidebones and ringbones grow.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

For the proper treatment of gangrene of the lateral cartilage and extensor tendon and caries of the coffin bone reference may be had to the articles on quittors.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877