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infectious, " It is discerned by ye swelling of ye hawke's eyes, by 

 the moysture which sundrie tymes issueth and distilleth from the 

 eares, and often eake by evyll savoure and smell of the apostume." 

 The invalid is inert, and cares little for her food, and will not 

 pull at her tirings. The remedies he recommends are excep- 

 tionally commonplace. First, butter, well washed in rose-water, 

 with honey of roses and powdered sugar. Then afterwards, for 

 the relief of her poor head, rue, 4 grains ; Aloes Epatie, 2 drams ; 

 saffron, i scruple, to be finely powdered and made into a pill 

 with honey of roses. If the ear is stopped up, clear it with lint 

 on a silver bodkin or needle, and, having infused warm oil of 

 sweet almonds, stop it with another piece of lint. Which fail- 

 ing of success, he gives directions for cauterising, for which the 

 original, or some surgeon, should be consulted. 



Another sort of swelling in the head which affects the nares 

 as well as the eyes, and is nothing else but a catarrh, may, it 

 seems, often be cured by a pill made of agaric, 2 scruples ; cin- 

 namon, I ; liquorice, i, powdered and mixed with honey of roses. 

 The sufferer should be made to sneeze by giving her — not snuff, 

 as one might expect, but pepper, cloves, and mustard-seed, 

 powdered, and blown into the nares through a quill, or rubbed 

 on to the nares and palate. After these, or indeed any doses 

 have been administered, it is well to carry the hawk on the fist 

 till they have taken effect. 



For suffusion of the eye a purge of aloes or agaric is recom- 

 mended, and local treatment by blowing the powder of aloes 

 and sugar-candy into the eye. 



Frounce is a malady which will pronounce itself sometimes 

 without much apparent cause. The mucous membrane of the 

 mouth and throat is inflamed, and the tongue swelled and coated 

 with a brownish white matter. This coating should be scraped 

 off with a quill or silver knife, and the mouth dressed with burnt 

 alum and vinegar, or a weak solution of nitrate of silver. The 

 dressing may be done with a piece of lint on a small stick. 

 Another lotion is made by taking the leaves of woodbine, with 

 sage, honey, and alum, and seething them till the leaves are quite 

 soft, and straining the decoction through a cloth. 



Inflammation of the crop may be the result of bad food 

 or neglect to give proper castings. The first signs of it will be 

 in the castings themselves, which may be discoloured or mis- 

 shapen, and sometimes charged with undigested food. In aggra- 

 vated cases the mutes may be reddish, and the hawk may often 

 throw up her food, and be unable to keep anything down. A 



