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102. The disease called the Bots. 



Bots in the 

 maw. 



Worms in 

 the belly. 



[Fol. 48.] 

 ' Affreyd.' 



102. The bottes. 



^ 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 



4 be quycke, and stycke faste in the mawe-syde ; it apperethe 

 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 



8 kyll hym. 



103. The wormes. 



^ 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 

 4 lengthe, greate in the myddes, and sharpe at bothe, 

 endes, and as moche as a spyndel, and wyll sone be 

 kylde. 



104. 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 



4 be styffe, and his skyn wyll stycke fast to his sydes, and 



may be well cured. 



105. Nauylgall. 



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 spanen. 



Spavin. ^ A spauen is an yll sorance, whervppon he wyll halte, 



and specyally in the begynnynge, and appereth on the 



hynder legges within, and agaynste the ioynte, and it wyll 



4 be a lyttell swolen and harde. And some horses haue 



