causeth the Hawke to perish Besides that it is very hard to apply medicines in that place but if the hawke bée of so strong a nature that shée brook the breathing and rupture of this disease which you shall perceiue by the quitture and filth that dooth issue from her eares giue her this remedie which is a very noble receit and approued of me oftentimes as well in men as in Hawkes to my great commendation and glory Take hony of Roses and oyle of egges incorporate them together and powre twice or thrice a day into the eares of your Hawke some few drops of it hote and if you find by the aboundance of filth that there néedeth great abstersion you may adde thereunto a quantity of Sarcacoll beaten into powder The Wine of Pomegranats is a most excellent remedy in this mischiefe confected with those things aforesaid Butter well coyled and beaten in a morter of lead one howre at the least and afterwards powred into the hawkes eares reasonable hote twice or thrice a day is a very good remedie Of such evils as happen to Hawkes in their chaps and mouthes THe chaps and mouth of a hawke is subiect to sundry diseases and in the hawkes mouth there are wont to grow certaine white peeces of flesh and sometimes tending somewhat to blacke which doe hinder the hawke from her feeding by meane whereof without any other euident cause shée becommeth leane and low Wherefore it shall bee very necessary to looke into her mouth somtimes both in the pallate and vnder the tong beeause that many times there especially doe grow vp certaine péeces of flesh like in shape to a grain of pepper sometimes lesse sometimes bigger than a pepper graine which it shall be necessary to cut away eyther with a payre of cysers if you may commodiously doeit or with Roch allome burnt or with a drop of oyle of brimstone applyed vpon a little cotton w t an yron vnto the place taking away the corrupt flesh You must mundisie the place with hony of Roses and bumbast or lynt vntill you sée the quicke flesh vnderneath it then afterwards vnto the hony of roses you may apply and adde a litle pouder of masticke or incense to consolidate the wound washing it sometimes among with white wine Moreouer and besides this there is wont to happen vnto hawkes in the mouth a certaine frownce or impediment which doth hinder their féeding as the other péeces of flesh do of which I haue spoken before This frownce may bée verie well perceyued and discerned with the eye and will appeare also by the féeding of the hawke Diuers times this kind of euill is cured with hony of Roses with the powder of nut-shels bound in a péece of linnen cloth well bathed and stiped together and thrust vnder the hote ymbers vntill it may be brought vnto fine powder this may you continue twice a day as long as shall be néedfull But if this will not serue the turne it shall bée very necessary to mortifie and kill the frownce with Aqua fortis such as Goldsmithes doe vse to part their mettals withall hauing respect not to touch it any where sauing only vpon the frownce and part diseased for that it will fret the good sound flesh After you haue mortified the frownce or canker with Aqua fortis as I haue told you then must you mundifie and consolidate it with hony of roses which will cure it out of hand Also it is very good to apply this receit following in the cure of the Frownce whome the Italians call Zarvol Take a cleane Skellet whereunto put good White Wine a quantity of Verdigrece well beaten to powder of Roche Allom like quantitie one ounce of hony and a few drie Rose Leaues boyle all these things together to the consumption of halfe the Wine then straine it and with the straining hereof twice or thrice a day bathe the frownce with a little lint or bumbast tyed on the toppe of an Instrument for the purpose But you must well regarde whether the Flesh bée good or no and with a toole fitte for it to search and cutte away the deade flesh for otherwise it will doe little pleasure and the Hawke should bée assured to suffer great paynes and yet to die at last Hauing mundified the wound with the receit aforesaid bath it onely with hony of Roses it will dispatch the Cure Take Verdigrece a quantity binde it in a linnen cloth stype it one day and one night in Rose Water or Plantine Water or common water not hauing the rest and afterwards wash the frownce therewith vntill they bée mortified which you shall well perceyue by the quicke flesh that will grow vnder then apply Honey of Roses in the ende of the Cure and it shall doe your hawke great good Egiptiacum is an excellent thing to cure kill the frownce in a Hawke which is none other thing but a very Canker such as men are plagued withall Wherefore take Verdigrece Roch Alome of eyther two ounces Honey of Roses one ounce water of Plantaine wine of Pemegranats of eyther two ounces and a halfe set them on a soft burning fire alwayes stirring them with a sticke or wodden splatter vntil it turne to the thicknesse of hony then take a little of it and mingle with a quantity of Plantaine water and you shall find this the most excellent remedy aswell for the frownce in a Hawke as also for the canker in the mouth of a man Thus much is necessary to be vsed when the frownce doth happen vnto a Hawke by some postume of the head engendred by a corrupt liuer or some other inward part But many times it so falleth out that the beake of a hawke is hindred offended with this kind of euill and not the mouth so much in such sort as the Hawke cannot well féede by meane this mischiefe doth so fret and eate the horne of her chappe and beake For remedy of that you must take a sharpe knife and pare away as much of the beake as is corrupted but if the malady or frownce haue eaten very farre vnder the horne of the beake it is not sufficient to cut it away with a sharpe knife as farre as the canker hath eaten but you must afterwardes annoint the place with hony of Roses twice or thrice and in so doing the Hawke shall recouer and doe well for the hony of Roses wil both mundifie and incarne Sometimes a hawkes beake or chappe doth ouergrow so much as it is very necessary to cope it with an yron and afterward to sharpen the beake with a knife taking away so much as is néedefull for the better féeding of your Hawke but in any wise you must not meddle with the nether chappe because that doth not commonly grow so fast nor so farre as to hinder your hawkes féeding Wherefore that part is to be fauoured Let this suffice as touching the diseases of the hawks mouth and the
of the best Sugar that I could get or Sugar Candie beaten to powder And my order was euer to giue this scowring euery seuenth or eight day And this is not alone to bee vsed to hawkes in the mew but also to such as are kept on the pearch and stocke But if it so fall out that by these deuises and scowrings you cannot make your Hawke haue a stomacke and gréedy appetite to féed it shall not bée euill to pisse vpon her meat and hauing dried it in part againe to giue her a gorge sufficient so much as may serue her and as shée will take For the more liquide and slipper flesh you giue her the sooner will shée bée enseamed And by this meanes doe Falconers preserue their hawkes from the falling euill and sodaine mischiefe and besides that from sundry other perillous accidents that doe follow those silly birds But if you take fine larde and beat it with Rue and Hysope till it be all one body and then make a round pyll and giue it to the Hawke it will helpe all diseases of the head Of the Apostumes of the head FAlcons Goshawkes and other birds of prey are wont to be much cumbred and molested with the swelling of the head and the Apostume thereof a very grieuous euill occasioned by aboundance of euill humors the heat of the head It is discerned by the swelling of the hawks eyes by the moistur which sundry times issueth and distilleth from the eares and often eake by euill Sauour and smell of the Apostume Also it may be perceyued by the small desire the hawke hath to mooue or aduance her selfe by the wresting of her heade and the little regarde shée hath to tyre and pull the flesh that shée feedeth on as though indéede tyring were verie painefull to her and by that shée is scarce able to open her clappe and beake after her accustomed manner Against this most perillous euill it shall be very necessary first of all to skowre your Hawke throughly and after that the head in chiefe As touching the generall skowring I can commend and allow you to giue her thrée or foure morninges when shée hath no meate to put ouer a pyll as bygge as a nutte of butter washt seuen or eight times in fresh water and stéeped well in Rose water mingling it afterward with Honie of Roses very good sugar holding your Hawke on the fist till shée make one or two mewtes Which being done to disburdeÌ„ and skowre the head it shall be excellent well done to take of Rewe séede foure drammes Aloes Epatick twoo drammes Saffron one scruple reducing and forcing all these to fine powder and with a quantitie conuenient of honie of Roses to make a pyll of that bignesse and syze as may well be coÌ„ueyed into the hawks beake by which her brayne may bée purged and skowred thrusting the pyll so déepe into her throte as you may well sée holding her a space after it vppon the fist And that doone setting her downe on the pearch in a conuenient place fit for the time and two hours after to féede her at her accustomed time with good hotte meate But if happily there bee any of the corruption and filth in the Hawkes eare it shall be very necessary carefully with an instrument of siluer or other good mettall for the nones that the one ende bée sharpe poynted and edged of purpose to apply lynt and on the other ende hollow and fashioned like vnto the eare of a Hawke to clense and remoue the filth that furreth the hawkes eare And with that ende whereon the lynte or bumbast is to skowre it very daintily and presently vppon the same to infuse and droppe in a quantity of Oyle of swéete Almondes fresh and luke warme and after the same to conuey into the eare a little lynt or bombast to kéepe in the Oyle till such time she bée dressed againe to the ende the Oyle may supplie and mollifie the filth so as it may easily bée remoued and clensed And this order must you obserue and continue vntill the Apostume be resolued throughly ripe But if it so fall out that the Aposthume wil not come to maturation or ripe in sorte as it may growe to suppuration and be mundified in manner aforesaid but wil rest at one stay in the head of the hawke then must you bée fayne to come to cauterize the head aloft and bestow a button there to cause the humor to breath and to bring the corrupt matter thither remembring after this fire and cauterie to remoue the escarre by bestowing on it for the space of eight or nine dayes butter by which you shall easily remoue the crust or escarre which is made by the fire You must not forget if it be so as your hawke bée so weake as shée is vnable or so froward as shée will not féede and tyre vpon her meate which you giue her then to cut it in smal pellets and so giue it her eyther by fayre meanes or fowle not leauing to vse it so if it be possible as shée may receyue it willingly and féede her selfe because it may the better nourish her For this is one vndoubted rule that when a Hawke doth refuse to féede and tyre shée is very vnlusty and diseased and not one among a huÌ„dreth of them that doth recouer And for mine owne part in all my time I haue recouered but one Falcon being so diseased and that by the meane and cure aforesaid and by vsing this cauterie Let this suffice as touching this monstrous accident for I meane to referre you to another place for the cauterie and fire which you shall vse to hawkes where I will speake specially thereof Only giuing you this caueat before you goe that this euill of the head is infectious and will passe from one hawke to another as the maungie doth among Spaniels or any such contagious disease Wherfore it shall be very good to sequester and sunder the hawke that is thus affected from your other hawkes for auoiding of the same euill Of the distillation and swelling of a Hawkes head and also of her eyes and naâ—es HAwkes are accustomed to haue a certaine distillation or Catarre in their heads because when they ard hard sléen withall set in great heates by long and painful flights they easily take cold vpon the same eyther through some vnhappy stormes of weather or great windes or by reason of the extreame cold of winter chiefly when they are full of grosse and naughty humors Of this Catarre or distillation sundry times there grow a thousand mischiefes to those poore birdes and specially the swelling of the head with a kind of dropping humor which is the cause many times that the hawkes eyes become lesse and are contracted in a manner together Beside which inconuenience the nares also become to bée stuft and stopped with excessiue excrement that descendeth from the braine All which euill accidents doe require and stand néedfull of
casteth not at her accustomed and wonted howres by her fowle castings by her stinking and ill coloured mewts whereof I spake before by her labouring thicke in the panell and by féeling of her For her pulse doth beat as the pulse of a man that hath a Feauer Moreouer her mewt is as blacke as any incke The disease is the most pestilent and dangerous of all others If the heat of her liuer procéede of too much bating or broiling with her selfe you may easily cure her with foure or fiue good liquid and cooling gorges as to féede her with the legge of a Pullet or the heart of a Veale bathed in Water of Buglosse Bowrage Harts tongue and such like waters Moreouer it is very Soueraigne to wash her meate in the iuyce of Henbane or else that which doth much more refresh the Hawke to take a little larde or bacon without the rinde and well washt and conserued in good Rose water and last of all rolled in powder of Sugar Candy With this receyte more than with any other am I accustomed to recomfort and refresh my hawke when shée is sick of her liuer Notwithstanding the other medicines are very wholesome and good And specially good fresh butter or Oyle washte and prepared as I taught you in the former chapter But when the mischiefe of the liuer is engendred by some pricke of a thorne or the crabbing with some other hawkes or foule as diuers times it happeneth to the Falcon by encounter with a Hearon when they binde together in the aire In this extremity mummy purified made to powder is very good You must roll your hawkes meat in this mummy prepared thrée or foure times and so giue it to your hawke and if shée refuse to take it of her selfe then conuey it into her by force with a cotton casting foure or fiue dayes one after an other If shée be ill affected in her liuer by a bruise against y e ground or against a trée or by encounter with some other fowle then take Rewbarbe of the best one scruple drie it vpon a hote yron pan vntill it may be made into fine powder of that giue in a canuas casting the weight of two graines of wheate to your larger sort of hawkes but for the lesse hawke the one half wil suffice After she hath taken this casting iâ— shee bee hie in flesh then two howres after féede her with a pullets legge washt in one of those cooling waters but if shée bee low and poore with good hote meat Thus must you continue four or fiue dayes giuing one day the casting with Rewbarbe and another day with the mummy aforesaid Truly without doubt your hawk shall recouer if you follow this methode vnlesse the lyuer bée remoued out of his place which sometimes dooth happen by some great bruise or straine And you shall know it by a continuall hardnesse which you shall féele in the hawkes pannell and by her yellow mewts For this inconuenience there is no remedy in the worlde to bée had although you would trie all the medicines that are to bée vsed to hawkes you shall profit nothing It must needes follow that within fiue dayes your hawk peke off the pearch It is not curable Gioroa us an excellent Falconer for the indisposition and heat of the lyuer willeth you to take halfe an ounce of Soldanel and one ounce of Iâ—eos which is floure de Luce. You must beate these into fine powder and conuey it into your casting so giue it your hawk Withal at night hee wils you when your hawke hath put ouer and well scowred her filth féed her with good meate washt in these cooling waters following Take water of Endiue Maydenheare Cycorie and Buglosse in these waters may you wash your hawkes meate as also her casting if it please you wrapping in the casting the powder aforesaid For what with the helpe of the one and the ther no doubt you shall see a very good effect Moreouer the said Giordanus saith that the Gerfalcons are of all other the hotest hawkes and therefore to maintaine and kéepe them sound he doth aduise to wash their castings in this water following Take Endiue water Maydenheare otherwise called Capillus Veneris the water of Scabiosâ— of eyther two ounces one dramme of choice Rewbarbe of the best Agaricke one scruple put those in infusion where after they haue béen infused seuen howres wash your Hawkes casting in it This order vse euer when your Gerfalcon is out of tune it shall greatly pleasure her Of diseases that happen to Hawkes feet and first as touching the swelling of a Hawkes foot SOmetimes the arme and foot of a Hawke doth swell by means of ill humors that descend and drop down through weakenes of the foot or arme through ouer great trauel toile through age by reasoÌ„ of some blow or bruise receiued long before This mischiefe may easily bée discerned aswell by view of eye as touch of hand for besides that you shall plainely perceiue it in sight you may feel a very great heat in the member so as sometimes the Hawke is vnable to stand on her legs for paine and auguish thereof Wherefore it is necessary to looke to it with all care that may be and to vse the matter as the humor bréed not the goote or the pinne which oftentimes hapneth to those poore birdes to their great and continuall plague The way to cure it is to giue the humor a vent by launsing it and after that to recomfort the member by ofteÌ„ annointing it with the white of an egge vinegar and rosewater well beaten and coyled together or else with very good olde oyle of oliues such as you can come by out of a bottle wherein oyle hath béen long time kept for those drops that hardly come out of the bottle are farre better than any new fresh oyle and are more medicinable in this case Moreouer besides the ceasing of the paine to delay the swelling you shall find it very excellent good to take the powder of Acacia terra Sigillata of eyther foure drams incorporating them with vineger the white of an egge Rose-water and the iuyce of Nightshade as much as will suffice to make this vnguent soft and delicate and with this receite to annoint the hawks foot or arme oftentimes for a space for this vnguent no question will both take away the immoderate ach and paine as also mollifie and delay the swelling and so restore your hawke to her former plight againe But aboue all there is none more certaine then to take oyle of bay and beating it wel with aqua v tae annoint the hawks féet or legs therwith An other approued medicine is to annoint the swelling of your hawkes foot with Oleum Petraelium which is the oyle of a Rocke and with oyle of white Lillies taking of each of these like quantity the blood of a pigeon and the talow of a candle heating all these together a little at the
the breaking of a Pounce or Cley of your Hawke SEing that I haue begunne to write and decipher you the mischiefes that doe happen to hawkes féete it shall not be beside my purpose nor amisse to say somewhat of the cure of their Pounces and Talons when eyther by striking the fowle or by any other accident they breake cleane off or riue in sunder Wherfore when your hawk hapneth to haue this mischiefe the part of the pounce or the whole pounce being brokē away you must apply vnto it the bladder of the gall of a Henne vsing the matter so as it may get into the broken Talon binding it so handsomely and artificially to the hawkes foot as the gall may not issue out nor fall away from the place This deuise will stoppe the blood cease the paine and within foure or fiue dayes fasten and harden the horne of the Pounce so as the hawke shall bée able to flée and if shée be a Falcon shee shal strike or ruffe a Ducke as before her hurt And to the end your hawk teare it not away with her beak it shall bée necessary eyther to clap her on a hoode with a false beake made vnto it or to fasten to her hood a péece of leather artificially so long and large as may serue the turn to arm her beake so as in time her pounce if it be but broken may waxe whole againe or if it bée clean riued away a new may grow in the place againe But if it bée not cleane riuen away then with a little new red sealing wax fixt about it let her rest it will soone conglutinate together again Let this suffice as touching the breaking or riuing of the Pounce of a Hawke When the thigh or legge of a hawke is out of ioynt BY some outward accident many times the thigh or legge of a Hawke is become out of ioynt wherefore it shal be very necessary in this case as soone as is possible to set it in his right and naturall place againe to the end that no matter nor fluxe of humor descend or distill to hinder the setting of it in ioynt againe which must néeds ensue if it be not regarded in time Which done set the hawke in some such place where shée shall haue no occasion to bate or broile with her selfe but bée at the greatest quiet and rest shee may applying medicines that haue vertue to desiccate and strengthen the hurt member which you shall doe by bathing a linnen plegget or a plegget of flax in the white of an Egge Oyle of Roses and Turpentine with two drams of Sanguis Draconis and of Aloes incorporated together and binding it about the thigh or legge which is out of ioynt and fastning ouer and aboue the said plegget a slender roller of linnen cloth to conserue kéepe if the more firmely and stayedly in the place where you would haue it to remaine Vsing the matter thus ten dayes together shifting and renuing the medicine euery two dayes once to the end the plegget waxe not ouer drie and stiffe to the hurte member I can like very well withall if before you apply this said medicine you bath well the thigh or legge of the hawk with a reasonable warme lotion or bath made of Wine roses dried Myrthe Sage Comfrey Camemill and Rosemary for these will warme and comfort the nerues and sinewes and withall drie vppe such fluxe of humor as shall powre down vpon the lame and broosed member But aboue all if you bath if w t the oyle of Swallowes the oyle of Mandrag mixt together it will take away all paine and tumor When a hawke hath broken a thigh or a legge IF by any mishap your hawke haue broken an arme or a leg as sundry times Falcons that are fowle slayers doe vse to doe by some stripe or encounter at the brooke with a strong fowle you must with all care and speed set right the broken bones in their naturall place againe which done deplume and plucke away the feathers from the member that is hurt round about the wound Then take Bole Armoniacke Aloes Epatick of the best Sanguis Draconis Of each a reasonable quantity made into fine powder After that take of Beane flowre Barly flowre Linséed flowre Of each one dramme Then take of Oyle of Dill Oyle of Roses Of each two drams Then take The white of an egge The mucillage of fenegreke The mucillage of linséede The mucillage of hollihock So much of these as will serue to make a playster according to art When you haue made this plaster spread a portion of it thinne vpon Flaxe or Lynte well towsed applying it vpon the rupture and broken place with as great cunning and care as you can you cannot vse it too daintily when you apply it because of the tendernesse of the hurt This done binde it with a fine linnen coller to stay the playster Then make fine splets of Timber all of one length thinne as may be and in fashion like the scales of a Sword scabbard whome you must enwrappe in Lynt for brusing the member These splets bestow orderly about your Hawks legge or thigh on euery side binding them with the linnen rollers or fillets artificially but neyther so loosely as the bones may slippe out of their place ne yet so streightly but that the hurt member may receyue his naturall nourishment comfort For otherwise it would be mortified and the vse of it lost This ligature and rolling of the member must be continued at the least 30. dayes for that the bone cannot close againe firmely vnder one moneths space Yet can I wish that you vnbind your rollers and change your medicine twice at the least in the first fiftéene dayes dealing so daintily as the boues may not sunder thereby And by meane thereof will your medicine and the ligature worke the better effect Lastly it shall not be amisse after you haue thus done to vse for thrée or foure dayes this lotion or water to bath your hawkes leg to strengthen and comfort the place Take Roch Allom one dramme Roses dried the Pill or rinde of Pomegranets and Frankensence of each a small quantitie white Wine as much as will suffice wherein you must boyle these things aforesaid to the consumption of halfe the wine with this lotion bath your hawkes thigh and legge plucking away the feathers as aforesaid And this shall comfort the member so as no fluxe of humors shall repayre to the place Besides all this you must not forget during the time of this cure to kéepe your diseased hawke remoued from all noise and accesse of people and if this misfortune befall her in the Winter time you must set her warme Moreouer it shall bée good and necessary in the beginning of your cure to giue your hawke 1 Aloes washt or 2 Agaricke in Trocyscks to scowre her to the end there grow no inflammations And withall to féede her with good meat the better to
one as of the other so as you may make fiue or sixe balls of the bignesse of a beane Then mingle the said mixtures and the powders together and euery morning giue your hawke one of the balles till all be spent and as is said afore set your hawke by the fire or in the Sunne féed her not by the space of an howre or twaine after at which time you shall giue her eyther a Hens legge or some small birds or a Rat or some Mice And in the morning when shée hath well indewed giue her foure or fiue cloues of Maces lapped in a little flesh or in the skinne of a henne or in pullets of Cotton And so may you cauterize her before the said medicine after the maner that I haue shewed before in the former receit of the Snayles so you draw her meate in milke or in fresh butter For the disease of the eares which commeth of the Rhewme and colde SOmetimes there hapneth another disease to hawkes by reason of moysture of the head which is called the disease the eares because there issue out certaine humors by them And yée shall know the disease by this that the hawke wil oft times wryth her head backe and maketh not so good cheare as she should do and is more vnlusty Wherfore search peruse hereares and you shall find the disease there The remedy whereof by Master Amè Cassians deuise is this Take a little long yron round at the end as a pease and Oyle of sweet Almonds or for lacke of that Oyle of Roses which is much better if you can come by it Then heate your yron in the fire neyther glowing red nor very hote and put it into the oyle and of that oyle so heat with the yron droppe a little into your hawkes eares putting the yron a little into them that they be not stopped For then of such inconuenience hapneth oftentimes the Canker to the braine which is incurable and killeth the hawke And beware of thrusting the yron too farre in or of béeing too hote for else you may kill her You must continue the ministring of this oyle foure or fiue dayes alwayes wiping away the humors gently that issue out of her eares and alwayes respecting her casting whether it be cleane or no. And if you list to scowre her with a common pyll or twaine they will â—ase her head maruailously wel and doe her excéeding much good or if you doe it with the sayd balles of Larde Sugar and marrow of béefe it is good likewise for you may vse eyther the one or the other at your pleasure Of the disease of the eye-lids which commeth of the Rhewme and cold ANother disease happeneth to Hawkes in the eye-liddes which causeth aswelling vnder the eye-lidde betwéene the eye the feare of the beake wée haue no proper spéech for it if yée remedie it not betimes it will swell round about and thereof commeth the hawe in the eye which will ouergrow the eye and stoppe it And assure your selfe it is a signe of death if it grow too long For I haue séene many die of it in my time for lacke of remedy Now by Master Amè Cossians opinion the remedy is this Heate the little round yron that I spake of afore cauterize her with it softly vpon her heade as is sayd for the Rhewm Likewise w t the other cutting yron feare her betwéene the eye and the beake Also pierce her nares with the little yron and afterward giue her the Medicine of the Snayles after the manner aforesaid foure or fiue dayes together And for want of that medicine you may vse the other of Larde Sugar and the Marow of Béefe mingled with the powder of Saffron and Camomill But if they fayle then take the iuyce of Housléeke Rose water and the oile of the white of an egge and mixe them together and therewith amount the hawkes eye and it will cure it without cauterizing Of the Hawe in the eye which commeth of moysture and cold and how it hapneth MOreouer somtimes there grows a great disease in their eyes which is named the Hawe and commeth after the same manner that it commeth in horses namely sometime by a blow or a stripe sometime by a disease in the head and most commonly by hurting of the eye with the streightnesse of the hoode or by some other misfortune which cannot sometimes bée eschewed And you shall discerne the coÌ„ming of this disease by seeing a little filme growing vp from the bending of her beake and couering her eye by little and little And this filme is somewhat blacke afore and is called the hawe which putteth out the eye if it once ouergrow the ball of it To remedy the same take a little néedle that is very sharp pointed and fine thréeded with a silke thréed and therewith take vppe the hawe handsomely and cut it with a little slicer as horse-leaches doe to horses but beware that you cut it not too much for hurting of the eye which you must wash with Rose water three dayes together In these cures of diseases that grow in the eyes there must bée great eare vsed for feare of a greater mischiefe because of the daintinesse of the place Of a blow given to the eye or of some other mischance SOmetimes the eyes of hawks are hurt by some mishappe ome stripe or otherwise as I said afore Against such vnlooked for mischances Master Amè Câ—ssiâ—r giueth cleare Fenell water Rose water as much of the one as of the other therwith washeth y e eye twice or thrice a day Master Malopin in his booke of the Prince willeth to take the iuice of Celondine otherwise called Hearb Arondell or Swallowes hearbe and to conuey it into the eye And if it bee not to be had gréene to take it drie and to beat it into powder and to blow it into her eye with a quill and this shall recure the hawke Of the Filme in the eye which some call the Veroll or the Pinne and Webbe THere is another disease in the eye called a Filme which commeth sometimes of disease in the head of Rhewms that distill into the eyes and sometimes of standing too long or too close hooded which happeneth through the fault and negligence of such as haue the bearing and ouersight of them For the remedie hereof Master Martine sayeth that yee must tak Celondine and bray it putting thereto hony and fresh butter and of each of those three giue your hawke a like portion with a hote gorge and moreouer put the Powder of Pepper and Aloes in her eye Or else as sayth Master Amê Cassian you must giue her the foresaide medicine of Larde Sugar and Marow of Béefe thrée or foure dayes together to scowre her setting her by a fire or in the Sunne and féeding her after it with some liue Fowle and kéeping her out of the wind and from standing colde or moist After shée is so scowred
if yée that the webbe shew it selfe much cauterize her vpon the vpper part of her head and likewise a little betwéene the eye and the beake after the manner aforesaid When all this is done squirt a little Rose-water into her eye and if néed be minister therto the powder or the iuyce of Celondine otherwise called Herbe Arondell as is said before This disease of the Pinne and Web is of some men called the Verol for the remedying whereof they burne the shell of a Tortoise in a new potte and beat it into fine powder which they serce through a fine cloth Then take they a cockle of the sea which is fashioned like a Hart and burning it throughly in the fire make it into fine powder serce it likewise And finally they take Sugar Candie in powder These thrée powders mixt together in equall portions they vse to put into their hawks eyes till they be whole Master Michelin telleth of one other receit for the sayde disease which is this Make a little hose in the toppe of an egge and powre out the white of it then coyle cleare Rose water and Sanguis draconis well together and fill vp your egge with them and stirre them throughly with a small stick Afterward wrap vp your egge in paste and stop vp the hole of it that nothing get out which done set it so closed in the fire till the past become blacke and red at the taking it from the fire Then take out that which is within it and beat it into powder and serce it through a fine cloth and of that powder you may vse to put in your hawkes eye till it be cured washing her eye now and then with water of Fenell and of Roses Master Mallopin makes another medicine for the same disease which is this Take the dung of a Lyzart which is called a Prouinciall and beat it into powder with Sugar Candy somewhat more in quantity than the other mingling theÌ„ both together He sayth that this powder is much better than all the others whereof you may vse as is said afore conueying into your hawkes eye water of roses and of Fenell But the best medicine is to put euery day into the Hawkes eye a little of the powder of Tutia or wash it with Tutia and Rose-water mixt together For the disease that breedeth in Hawkes beakes commonly called Formicas DIuers times there growes a disease vpon the horne of hawkes beakes which eateth and fretteth the beak from the head Master Amè sayeth it is a worme that eateth the horne of the beake within by reason wherof the hawke is in great daunger if shée bée not holpen in time Yee shall perceyue it by this that the horne of the beake waxeth rugged and the beake beginneth to riue and cliue from her head Master Amè Cassian giueth this answere and remedy thereunto Take the gall of an Oxe or of a bull which is better than of an oxe and all to beate it and breake it in a dish and put thereto the powder of Aloes Cicotrine and mingle them well together Then noynt the horne of your Hawkes clap or beake therewith and the very place where the Formica growes twice a day But beware that you touch neither her eyes nor her nares And continue your so doing till shée bée throughly cured and let her be bathed with Orpiment and Pepper to kéepe her from vermine and Mites For the disease that breedeth in the Nares of Hawkes ANother disease bredeth in Hawks nares so as they swel excéedingly and sometime vpon the horne of the beake there ryseth a crust at the remouing whereof the flesh is found to be raw vnderneath the clappe insomuch that diuers times they loose the one halfe of their beake Master Amè Cassian saith that the hawke hath small Mites in her head which créepe downe alongst her beake entring in at her nares do bréede the saide disease and that the hawke féeling them and being molested therwith thrusteth her talents into her nares Or else it hapneth sometimes that a cast of Hawkes doe burcle and crab together and thereof bréedeth the said disease M. Amè Cassian prouideth for it this remedy following Make little matches of paper of y e bignes of the tag of a point let your hawke be cast handsomly set your matches on fire w c a candle seare your hawke vpon the place swollen taking good heed y t you do it not too roughly Which being done annoint it the next morning with a little Hennes grease and so will it heale well and her beake and nares will not be stuft but remayne open Neuerthelesse yée must be faine sometimes to touch her with an yron which is more dangerous than the other The disease called the Frownce which breedeth within hawkes beakes and in their tongues THe Frownce procéedeth of moist cold humours which descend from the hawkes head to their palate the roote of the tongue And of that cold is engendred in the tongue the Frownce otherwise called of the French men the Barbillons or Sourchelons by meanes of which they loose their appetite and cannot close their clap whereof they oftentimes die and that disease is named the Eagles bane For as I reported to you in the first part of this collection the Eagle seldome when dyeth of age but onely by meane her beake doth ouergrow so as shée cannot féede and gorge her selfe Yée may perceiue this disease by losse of her appetite to féede And to know it the better open your hawkes beake and looke on her tongue whether it be swollen or no And if there appeare not that disease open her beake againe within a while after and sée if there be any likelyhoode of it and so may yée easily discrie the mischiefe For remedy whereof the said Master Mallopin sayth that you must take oyle of swéet Almonds or oyle oliue washt in foure or fiue waters and with that oyle annoynt her throate and her tong thrée or foure times a day with a feather for fiue or sixe dayes together And if your hawke cannot féede let her meate bée cut and shredde into very small pellets This done open her beake gently and make her to receiue it downe by conueying a smal sticke into her throate giuing her not paste halfe a gorge at a time and that must be either of Mutton or of some liue fowle Henne Chicken or such like fiue or sixe dayes after open her beake handsomely again and with a payre of sharpe Sissers cut off the typpes of the Barbyllons till the bloud follow but yet beware of cutting away too much After this annoint and moysten well her throate with sirope of Mulberies called of the Apothecaries Diamorâ—n and then annoint her with oyle of sweet Almonds or with oyle Oliue till shée bée recured Nothing cureth the Frownce so soone as the powder of allom brought to a salue with strong wine Vinegar and annoint or wash the hawkes