Book If. O^S^IT HO LOqY. i$a 



Pigeons is reftorative, and ufeful to recruit the ftrength of fuch as are getting up, 

 or newly recovered from fome great ficknefs: To us it feerns to be moll: favoury, and 

 if we may ftand to the verdift of our Palate, comparable to the moft efteemed. 



A live Pigeon cut afunder along the back-bone, and clapt hot upon the Head, mi- 

 tigates fierce humours and difcufles melancholy fadnefs. Hence it is a moft proper 

 medicine in the phrenfie, headach, melancholy, and gout, Schrod. Some add alio in 

 the Apoplexy. Our Phyficians ufeto apply Pigeons thus difle&ed to the foals of the 

 Feet, in acute diieafes, in any great defecl: of fpirits or decay of ftrength, tolupport 

 and refrefh the patient, that he may be able to grapple with, and mafter the dileafe. 

 For the vital fpirits of the Pigeon ftill remaining in the hot flefti and bloud, dd 

 through the pores of the skin insinuate themfelves into the bloud of the fick perfon 

 now dif-fpirited and ready to ftagnate, and induing it with new life and vigour, en- 

 able it to perform its folemn and neceflary circuits. 



The hot bloud dropt into the Eyes allays pain, and cures blear eyes, and difcufleth 

 fufrufions and bloud-fhot, and cures green wounds. It properly ftops bloud that 

 flows from the membranes of the brain 5 and mitigates the pains of the gout. 



Note 1. The bloud of the CochcPigeon is beft, and that taken front under the right Wing, 

 ( becanfe it is of a hotter nature. ) • 



Note 2. The bloudyjuyce from the feathers of the Wings may be ufedf&r the other blond, 

 and it is bejifrom the young Pigeon. 



The coat of theflomach dried and powdered is good againft Dyfenteries. 



The Dung is very hot from the nitrous faculty ( wherewith it is indued ) and there- 

 fore burns, diicufTes, and makes the skin red by attracting the bloud. 



Hence it is of common ufe in Cataplafms and Plafters that rubifie. Beaten, and 

 lifted, and laid on with Water -crefs Seeds, it is good againft olddifeafes: Such as 

 are the Gout, Megrim, * Tuvn-fick, old Headach, and pains in the Sides, Colics, * or Ami- 

 Apoplexies, Lethargy, &c. It difcufleth' Strumaes, and other Tumours ( laid on with ne Sj Vsri ^ &i 

 Barley-four and Vinegar ) and cures the falling of the hair (anointed*) and Colic (z« 

 Clyfters ) and difcufleth defluxions on the knees ( allied with fait and oyl.*) 



Inwardly, it breaks the Stone, and expels Urine. Give from a fcruple to two icru- 

 ples. Schrod. out of Galen and Fernelius. 



Doves dung ( as Crefcentienfis faith ) is beft of all others for Plants and Seeds, 

 and may be fcattered when any thing is fown together with the Seed, or at any 

 time afterwards : One Basket-ful thereof is worth a Cart-load ofSheeps dung. Our 

 Country-men alio are wont to low Doves dung together with their grain. 



§. III. 



* A wild Pigeon of St. Thomas hisljland^ Marggrav. 



IT is of the bignefs and figure of our Country Pigeon, but its upper Bill hooked a 

 the foremoft half being of a blue colour mixt with a little white and yellow, the 

 hindmoft of a fanguine. The Eyes are black, with a circle of blue. The whole bo« 

 dy is covered with green feathers like a Parrot. The prime feathers of the Wings are 

 duskiih, as is alfo the end of the Tail. Under the vent it hath yellow feathers. The 

 Legs and Feet are of an elegant Saffron-colour, but the Claws dusky. 



$. IV. 



A Turtle-dove.Txxxtxxt; 



T He Male., which we delc*ibed from Bill-point to Tail-end was twelve inched 

 long : from tip to tip of the Wings extended twenty one broad : Its Bill {len- 

 der, from the tip to the angles of the mouth almoft an inch long, of a dusky blue co- 

 lour without, and red within : Its Tongue (mail and not divided: The Irides of its 

 Eyes between red and yellow. A circle of naked red ftelh encompafleth the Eyes as 

 in many others of this kind. 



Its Feet were red 5 its Claws black 5 its Toes divided to the very bottom. Theinnetf 

 fide of the middle Claw thinned into an edge: 



Its Head and the middle of its Back were blue or cinereous, of the colour of a 

 common Pigeon. The Shoulders and the Rump were of a fordid red: The Breaft 

 and Belly white : The Throat tin£tered with a lovely Yinaceous colour, Each fide of 



