I 5'° 
LINNET, 
Their Difeafes and Cures . 
Ti-iis is a very healthful bird, and has been 
sept many years, without being fubjedt to any 
malady ; but foraetirnes he is troubled with 
melancholy, occafioned from a fuelling at the 
end oi- his rump, from which, if ripe, you 
may with a needle let out the corruption, and 
anomt tire part with the ointment of freih but- 
ter and capon’s greafe, or take a bit of loaf, 
in-gar moillened in your mouth, put it on the 
mrc, and it will heal k : feed him for two or 
tome days with the ieeds and leaves of lettice, 
beets, or the ieeds of melon c hop’d in pieces, 
which he will eat very greedily of ; when you 
imd him to mend, take the melon feeds, &c. 
away, and give him his old diet again ; you may 
put into his water a blade of fcfiron, and white 
ingar- candy, till you perceive the bird to be en- 
tir !y recovered. 
. dlfeafc this bird ^ mo ft troubled with 
3 C l UE,n ^ occa fioned by bad feeds, and many 
,! meS f ° r want of frefb water. There are three 
0I ( * hls didera P er ; the frit very thin, and 
* VK X a bhck iuWbnce in the middle, which is 
jtot very dangerous: the fecond is between a 
I Ck akC “ ' but riot thin as the other, 
bUt ftinklng, this is worii- 
