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Chap. III. 

 Of the Pantas or Afthma. 



THe Pantos is a dangerous Diftemper, and few Hawks efcape which are affiicled 

 therewith. It happens when the Lungs are as it were fo baked by exceffivc 

 heat, that the Hawk cannot draw her breath, and when drawn, cannot vyell 

 emit it again. You may judge of the beginning of this Diftemper by the Hawks la- 

 bouring much in the Pannel, moving her Train often up and down at each motion 

 of her Pannel: and (hecannot many times mewt or (life, or if Ihe do, (lie drops 

 ijt faftby her. It is known likewhe by your Hawks frequent opening her Clap and 

 Beak; 



The belt Remedy is, to fcour your Hawk with good Oyl-Olive well waihed in 

 feveral waters till it become clear and whiter which you muft do after this manner: 

 Take an earthen pot with a fmall hole in the bottom thereof, which you mult (top 

 with your finger 5 then pour therein your Oyl with a quantity of water, and coil 

 thefe together with a fpoon till the water grow darkiih, after which remove your 

 finger, and the water will run out, but the Oyl remain behind floating on the top 5 

 thus do (even or eight times, till you have throughly purified the Oyl : Then take a 

 Sheeps Gut above an inch long for a Falcon and Gofeawk, but of a lefs length for 

 lefler Hawks, and fill it with this Oyl, and fatten it with thread at both ends. Your 

 Hawk having firft caft, convey this Gut into her Throat, holding her on the Fill till 

 (he make a Mewt 3 an hour after (he hath done mewting feed her with a Calves Heart, 

 or a Pullets Leg, giving her every third or fourth day a Cotton-calling with Cubebs 

 and Cloves. I (hall only add one Receipt more for the Pantas orAJthma, and that 

 is the Oyl of fweet Almonds poured into a Walht Chickens Gut,and given the Hawk, 

 which is of great efficacy in the cure of this Difeafe. 



Chap. -#. 



Of Worms. 



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THere are a fort of Worms an inch long which frequently afflict Hawks, pro- 

 ceeding from grofs and vifcous Humours in the Bowels, occasioned through 

 want of natural heat and ill digeftion. 

 You may know when (he is troubled with them by her cafting her Gorge, her 

 ftinking Breath, her Trembling and writhing her Train, her croaking in the night, 

 her offering with her Beak at her Breaft or Pannel, and by her Mewt being fmall and 

 unclean. 



You may cure her of them with a Scouring of walht Aloes Hepatic, Multard- 

 feed and Agarick, of each an equal quantity } or the Powder of Harts-horn dried 3 

 or laftly, a Scouring of white Dittany, Aloes, Hepatic walht four or five times, Cu- 

 bebs, and a little Saffron wrapt in fome flefb, tocaufe her to take it thebe-tter. 



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Chap. W 

 Of the FiianderSo 



THere are feveral forts of Filanders, but 1 fhall fpeak but of one (ticking to 

 the Reins. They are Worms as fmall as a Thread, and about an inch long, 

 and lie wrapt up in a thin Skin or Net near "the Reins of a Hawk, apart from 

 either Gut or Gorge. 



You fhall know when your Hawk is troubled with them by her poverty, by ruffling 

 her Train, by [training the.Fift or Pearch with her Pounces, and laftly by croaking in 

 the night when the Filanders prick her. You muft remedy this Malady betimes, be- 

 fore thefe Worms have inlarged themfelyes from their- proper (ration, roving elie- 

 where to your Hawks ruine and deftru&ion. -K k k You! 



