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 disease of the eye-lids which commeth of the Rhewme and cold.

ANother disease happeneth to Hawkes in the eye-liddes which causeth aswelling vnder the eye-lidde, betwéene the eye & the feare of the beake (wée haue no proper spéech for it) if yée remedie it not betimes it will swell round about: and thereof commeth the hawe in the eye which will ouergrow the eye and stoppe it. And assure your selfe it is a signe of death if it grow too long. For I haue séene many die of it in my time for lacke of remedy. Now by Master Amè Cossians o∣pinion, the remedy is this. Heate the little round yron that I spake of afore, & cauterize her with it softly vpon her heade as is sayd for the Rhewm. Likewise w^t the other cutting yron, feare her betwéene the eye and the beake. Also pierce her nares with the little yron, and afterward giue her the Medicine of the Snayles after the manner aforesaid, foure or fiue dayes together. And for want of that medicine, you may vse the other of Larde, Sugar, and the Marow of Béefe mingled

with the powder of Saffron and Camomill. [But if they fayle, then take the iuyce of Housléeke, Rose water,* 1.1 and the oile of the white of an egge, and mixe them together, and there∣with amount the hawkes eye, and it will cure it without cau∣terizing.]

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