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.

The disease of the Canker which breedeth in the throats and tongs of hawkes.

YE must vnderstand that the canker bréedeth of fowle fée∣ding your Hawkes, not washing of their meate in colde water in Summer, and in warme in Winter, which engen∣dreth in their guts grosse slimie matter. And when those hu∣mors come to bée moued, they sume vp into the head, and (so distilling again) ingender heat of the liuer which breaketh out in the throat and the tong, and there engender the canker. You shall discerne this disease by the féeding of your hawke, for in taking her meat shée letteth it fal, and afterward hath much a∣doe to swallow it. Therefore let her beake bée annointed, and you shall find the disease of the Canker. Master Amè Cassian giueth this medicine for it. Take Oyle of Almonds, or oyle Oliue washed as is sayd afore, and annoint well her throat w^t it twice or thrice a day. That done, giue her the said medicine of sugar, lard, and marrow of béefe thrée dayes together, and féede her with mutton or with pullets, or hennes flesh dipped in the foresaid oyle, but yée must not wash your oyle of Al∣monds. After this, you must behold and regard the canker, & if you finde it white, take a smal yron made at the one end like a Rasor, and at the other end edged and sharpe. And if her tong bée very much ouergrowne with the canker, slit & open it hād∣somely alongst the side of her tong, and with your rasor scrape away the whitenes softly which you sée there. Then take a lit∣tle cotton or lint to drie and drinke vp the bloud of her tong, & sée that none bée left. And if the other side of her tong happen to be so too, slit it likewise: which done, take the iuyce of Mayden∣haire and lay vpon it. And for want of that hea••••be take a litle vinegar, or rather the iuyce of a lymond which is much better, and wash her meat in oyle till shée bée throughly recured. Ma∣ster Michelin giueth another remedy which is this. Anoint wel her throat and tong with sirupe of mulberies (otherwise called Diamoron) two or thrée dayes together, after which, take of the foresaid good oyle: Then take the powder of brimstone, and

of sugar candie, or of other white sugar mingled well together of each a like, and put a little thereof vpon the canker: for if you should lay much, it would fret the tong too sore. And this maner of dealing is better for a confirmed canker than any o∣ther. Therefore wash her meat with the oyle aforesaid, & feede her with mutton, or the flesh of hens or pullets.