Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
[Sidenote: Wind-galls.]
¶ Wyndgalles is a lyghte sorance, and commeth of great
labour, and appereth on eyther syde of the ioynte aboue
the fetelockes, as wel before as behynde, and is a lyttell
swollen with wynde. 4
100. Morfounde.
[Sidenote: Morfound.]
¶ Morfounde is an yll sorance, and cometh of rydynge
faste tyll he swete, and than sette vp sodeynely in a colde
place, without lytter, and take cold on his fete, and
specially before, and appereth vnder the houe in the hert 4
of the fote, for it wylle growe downe, and waxe whyte,
[Sidenote: It affects the feet.]
and cromely lyke a pomis. And also wyl appere by
processe by the wryncles on the houe, and the houe
before wyll be thycker, and more bryckle than and he 8
had not benne morfounde; nor he shall neuer trede so
[Sidenote: [Fol. 47_b_.]]
boldely vpon the harde stones as he dydde before; nor
wyll not be able to beare a man a quarter of a yere or
more; and with good paryng and shoynge, as he oughte 12
to be, he wyll do good seruyce.
101. The coltes euyll.
[Sidenote: The colt’s evil.]
¶ Coltes euyll is an yll disease, and commeth of ranknes
of nature and bloudde, and appereth in his scote, for
there wyl he swel great, and wyll not be harde, and
soone cured in the begynnynge. 4
102. The bottes.
[Sidenote: Bots in the maw.]
¶ The bottes is an yll dysease, and they lye in a horse
mawe, and they be an inche long, white-coloured, and
a reed heed, and as moche as a fyngers ende, & they
be quycke, and stycke faste in the mawe-syde; it apperethe 4
by stampynge of the horse, or tomblynge, and in the
beginninge there is remedy ynoughe, and if they be
not cured betyme, they wyll eate thorowe his mawe, and
kyll hym. 8
103. The wormes.
[Sidenote: Worms in the belly.]
¶ The wormes is a lyght dysease, and they lye in the
greatte paunche, in the belye of the horse, and they
are shynynge, of colour lyke a snake, syxe inches in
lengthe, greate in the myddes, and sharpe at bothe 4
endes, and as moche as a spyndel, and wyll sone be
kylde.
[Sidenote: [Fol. 48.]]
104. Affreyd.
[Sidenote: ‘Affreyd.’]
¶ Affreyd is an yll disease, and commethe of great
labour and rydynge faste with a contynuall sweate, and
thanne sodeynly to take a great colde, his legges wyll
be styffe, and his skyn wyll stycke fast to his sydes, and 4
may be well cured.
105. Nauylgall.
[Sidenote: Navel-gall.]
¶ Nauylgall is a soraunce, hurte with a saddle, or with a
buckle of a croper, or suche other, in the myddes of the
backe, and maye be lyghtely cured.
106. A spauen.
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