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feizes them in a moment, even when they are 
flaging tne loudeft. It is laid they ought not 
to be touched or taken up when they fail, but 
that we ought merely to obferve if they have 
voided a drop of blood at the bill, in which cafe 
iacy will come to themfelves and recover in a 
little fpace their fenfe and life ; that touching 
tnem before would make the drop fall too fbon, 
and would occahon their death. I with the 
truth of this account were well afcertained, for 
fome fads in it appear to me doubtful. This 
much is certain, that when they furvive the 
hrft fit, they often live as long after it as if they 
had never been attacked by it. I believe, how- 
ever, that they might all be cured, by giving 
tnem a flight wound in the feet, for in this way 
Parrots are often cured of the epilepfy. 
How many evils attend upon flaveyy ! In a 
flate of freedom would thofe birds be afthmatic, 
fcabbv, or epileptic ? Would they be liable to 
inflammations, to impofthumes, to ulcers ? and 
is not the moil direful of all difeafes, that ari- 
hng from ungratified love, common to every 
being in captivity ? females efpecially, being 
more deeply tender, more delicately fufceptible, 
are nacre fufcjed to it than males. It is re=- 
marsec;, that tne hen Canary-laird often grows 
fickiy at the beginning of Spring, before flie has 
got a mate ; fhe fades, pines, and dies in a few 
clays. The vain emotions and un gratified de- 
