Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
[Sidenote: The vives.]
¶ The viues is a sorance vnder a horse ere, bytwene the
ouer ende of the chall-bones and the necke, and are
rounde knottes bytwene the skyn and the fleshe lyke
tennes-balles; and if they be not kilde, they wyl waxe 4
quicke, and eate the rotes of the horse eares, and kil hym.
92. The cordes.
[Sidenote: The cords.]
¶ The cordes is a thynge that wyll make a horse to
stumble, and ofte to fall, and appereth before the forther
legges of the body of the horse, and may well be cured
in .ii. places, and there be but fewe horses but they 4
haue parte therof.
93. The farcyon.
[Sidenote: The farcion.]
¶ The farcyon is an yll soraunce, and maye well be cured
in the begynnynge, and wyll appere in dyuers places of his
bodye, and there wyll ryse pymples as moche as halfe a
walnutshell, and they wyll folowe a veyne, and wyll 4
[Sidenote: Other horses will catch it.]
breake by it selfe. And as manye horses as do playe with
him that is sore, and gnappe of the matter that renneth
[Sidenote: [Fol. 46_b_.]]
out of the sore, shall haue the same sorance within a
moneth after; and therfore kepe the sycke frome the 8
hole. And if that sorance be not cured betyme, he wyll
dye of it.
94. A malander.
[Sidenote: The malander.]
¶ A malander is an yl sorance, and may wel be cured
for a tyme, but with yl keping it wyl comme agayne,
and appereth on the forther legges, in the bendynge of
the knee behynde, and is lyke a scabbe or a skal: and 4
some horses wyll haue two vpon a legge, within an
inche together, and they wyl make a horse to stumble,
and other whyle to fall.
95. A selander.
[Sidenote: The selander.]
¶ A selander is in the bendynge of the legge behynde,
lyke as the malander is in the bendynge of the legge
before, and is lyke a malander, and may be well cured.
96. A serewe.
[Sidenote: The serewe.]
¶ A serewe is an yll soraunce, and is lyke a splent, but
it is a lyttell longer and more, and lyeth vppe to the knee
on the inner syde. And some horses haue a throughe
serewe on bothe sydes of the legge, and that horse must 4
nedes stumble and fall, and harde it is to be cured.
97. A splent.
[Sidenote: A splent.]
¶ A splent is the leaste soraunce that is, that alwaye
[Sidenote: [Fol. 47.]]
contynueth, excepte lampas. And many men take vpon
them to mende it, and do payre it.
98. A ryngbone.
[Sidenote: Ring-bone.]
¶ A ryngbone is an yll soraunce, and appereth before on
the foote, aboue the houe, as well before as behynde,
and wyll be swollen three inches brode, and a quarter
of an inche or more of heyghte, and the heare wyll stare 4
and waxe thyn, and wyll make hym to halte, and is yll
to cure, if it growe longe.
99. Wynd-galles.
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