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 their palate which falleth to swelling by reason of moysture of the head.

SOmetimes it hapneth that the palates or roofes of hawks mouthes are swollen, and looke whitish: which commeth of moysture and cold wherewith their heads are surcharged. And ye may perceiue this disease by that they cānot close their beakes, and by that they look not so chearly as they were wōt to do, ne can put ouer, or endew their meat but with great pain. To cure your hawke of this disease, you must open her beak, where you shal find the roof of her mouth whitish and swollen. And if you find it not so, you must search her beake to discerne if she haue any other disease there that lets her to shut it: for sometimes their beakes grow more on the one side of the clap than on the other, so as they cannot close them. The remedie that M. Amê Cassian giues for this euill, is this: The hawkes that are so diseased must haue the said pils of Larde, sugar, and marow of béefe, giuen them euery morning one or two for foure or fiue dayes space together, and about an howre or two after, feed them with some poultrie or mutton drawn through the foresaid oyle. And after those dayes open her beake again, and softly scrape of the whitenesse: and if yee find the swelling abated, then do none other thing to her but only continue your anointing of her with the said oile. But if ye perceiue the swel∣ling to rise too hie, ye may launce or pricke it, but yée must be∣ware that yée strike not too déepe, for ye may soone kill your hawke. Afterward lay the iuyce of mayden-haire to it, and continue it till it be throughly cured, and alwayes draw her meat in the said oyle, or else in milke or butter.