The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.

Of the Pinne in the Hawkes foot, a disease much like the corne in the foot of a man. The Italians tearme them Chiodetti.

THere is yet one other euill which hapneth in the foote of a hawke, by meane of matter that powreth down in a ma∣ner as hard to bée cured as the Gowte, and as cumbersome to the silly hawke as the Gout, for by reason of the pinne shée is neyther well able to foot her prey, to féed her selfe, nor yet to stand sure vpon her pearch.

The Pinne is a swelling disease that doth resemble sharp nayles, rising vp in the bottome or palme of the hawkes foote: and by reason it doth so much in shape resemble a nayle, by meane of the sharpenesse thereof, those swellings are called by the Falconers of Italy Chiodetti, as a man would terme them in English small nayles, of which, very few hawks can bee re∣cured.

Yet for remedy of this disease, some doe aduise to open the vain of the leg, a thing not only friuolous to talke of, & a verie old womans fable, or Canterbury tayle, but also very perilous to bée put in practise. For truly neyther will I my selfe at any time practise it, ne yet aduise others to doe it. I can more com∣mend that you mollifie and make soft the said pin with strong Vineger the best that may be gotten, which done, pare it til the bloud follow after: then to bring it to maturation, and to ripen it, apply handsomely vpon it in a linnen plegget, a quantity of vnguent made of iuyce of Lemmons, one ounce & a halfe of hennes grese, thrée drams powder of Masticke, leaues of Bit∣tony and Frankensence, or Olibanum a resonable portion, & so much new waxe as will serue the purpose.

Besides this, I doe vse to boyle it in good white wine, all

these things together, Waxe, Oyle of bitter Almonds, of each like quantity, a little Sage, Frankinsence, Rewe, Rosema∣ry, to the consumption of three partes, then pounding well all these with Turpentine and yellow Waxe, I make an vnguent of excellent vertue and operation. And if by these remedies aforesaid, the Pinne become to be soft, and forgo his hardnesse, then doth it behoue you to cut it out from the roote, as low as is possible, and to drie it vp with Agrippa, an vn∣guent so called, and with Gratia Dei, mingling these two together by equall portions, as much of the one as of the o∣ther.

Ouer and besides all these, the playster that is called Em∣plastrum Sacrum and Isis, whome the Apothecaries do so term are of singular vertue, because they doe mollifie and desiccate the wound or disease. I cannot remember, that aboue twice, I could euer doe any good vpon my Hawkes herewith (nor with any other remedy) and therefore I will leaue to make any further recitall hereof.

There be some ventrous Falconers, that will with a caute∣rizing yron goe about to roote and burne out the Pinne, which I will at no time endeauour to doe, doubting least thereby I shall shrinke my Hawkes sinewes, and spoile my Hawke, by meanes they are so neare neighbours to the heart.