Cratches. 



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72 112. TJie disease called Cratches. 



112. Cratches. 



\ Cratches is a soraunce that wyll cause a horse to halt, 

 and commeth of yll kepynge, and appereth in the 

 pasturnes, lyke as the skyn were cut ouerthwarte, that a 

 4 man maye laye a white strawe, and it is sone cured. 



Attaint. 



Gravelling. 



A -cloyed. 



113. Atteynt. 



^ Atteynt is a sorance, that commeth of an ouer- 

 rechynge, yf it be before ; and if it be behynde, it is of 

 the tredynge of an other horse, the whiche maye be soone 

 4 cured. 



114. Grauelynge. 



^ Grauelynge is a hurte, that wyll make a horse to halte, 

 and commethe of grauell and lyttel stones, that goth in 

 betwene the shough and the herte of the fote, and is sone 

 4 mended. 



115. A-cloyed. 



^j A-cloyde is an hurte, that commeth of yll shoynge, 

 whan a smyth dryueth a nayle in-to the quycke ; the 

 which wyll make hym to halt, and is sone cured. 



116. The scabbe. 



The scab. ^ There is a disease amonge horses that is called the 



scabbe, and it is a skorfe in dyuers places of his body. 



And it commeth of a pouertie and yll kepynge ; and is 



4 most commonly amonge olde horses, and wyll dye 



thervpon, and maye be well cured. 



Lousy 

 horses. 



117. Lowsy. 



^ There be horses that wyll be lowsy, and it cometh of 

 pouertie, colde, and yll kepynge ; and it is moste com- 



