Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
[Sidenote: Diseases of horses.]
Nowe it is to be knowen, the soraunce and dyseases of
horses, & in what partes of theyr bodyes they be; that
a man maye the rather perceyue them. And howe be it
that it may be against my profyt, yet I wil shewe you 4
suche as cometh to my mynde.
81. The lampas.
[Sidenote: The lampas.]
¶ In the mouthe is the lampas, & is a thycke skyn full
of bloude, hangynge ouer his tethe aboue, that he may
not eate.
82. The barbes.
[Sidenote: The barbs.]
¶ The barbes be lyttell pappes in a horse mouth, and
lette hym to byte: these two be sone holpen.
83. Mournynge of the tonge.
[Sidenote: Mourning of the tongue.]
¶ Mournynge of the tonge is an yll dysease, and harde
to be cured.
84. Pursy.
[Sidenote: Pursiness.]
¶ Pursy is a dysease in an horses bodye, and maketh
hym to blowe shorte, and appereth at his nosethrilles,
and commeth of colde, and may be well mended.
85. Broken-wynded.
[Sidenote: Broken wind.]
¶ Broken-wynded is an yll dysease, and cometh of
[Sidenote: [Fol. 45_b_.]]
rennynge or rydynge ouer moche, and specially shortely
after he is watred, and appereth at his nosethryll, at his
flanke, and also at his tuell, and wyll not be mended; 4
and wyll moche blowe and coughe, if he be sore chafed;
and it wyl leaste appere, whan he is at grasse.
86. Glaunders.
[Sidenote: Glanders.]
¶ Glaunders is a disease, that may be mended, and
commeth of a heate, and a sodeyne colde, and appereth
at his nosethrylles, and betwene his chall-bones.
87. Mournynge on the chyne.
[Sidenote: Mourning on the chine.]
¶ Mournynge on the chyne is a dysease incurable, and
it appereth at his nosethryll lyke oke-water. A glaunder
whan it breaketh, is lyke matter. Broken-wynded, and
pursynes, is but shorte blowynge. 4
88. Stranguellyon.
[Sidenote: Stranguelion.]
¶ Stranguelyon is a lyght dysease to cure, and a horse
wyl be very sore sycke therof, and cometh of a chafynge
hote, that he swete, and after he wyll ryse and swell in
dyuers places of his body, as moche as a mannes fyste; 4
and wyll breake by it selfe, if it be kepte warme, or els
is there ieoperdy.
89. The hawe.
[Sidenote: The haw.]
¶ The hawe is a sorance in a horse eye, and is lyke
[Sidenote: [Fol. 46, _misprinted_ 49.]]
gristell, and maye well be cutte oute, or els it wyll haue
out his eye; and that horse that one, hath commonly
two. 4
90. Blyndnes.
[Sidenote: Blindness.]
¶ A horse wyll waxe blynde with laboure, and that
maye be cured betyme.
91. Viues.
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