The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

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Title: The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Author: Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
Publication: London :: Printed by S. Roycroft for Richard Blome ...,; 1686.
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Subject terms: Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.; Sports -- Great Britain.; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.; Science -- Early works to 1800.; Hunting -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28396.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.

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Of Apostumes in the Head. [ 40]

HAWKS are troubled with Swellings in their Head, which is an ill Disease, and occasioned by divers ill Humors and the heat of the Head. It is discerned by the swelling of the Eyes, by the moisture that comes from their Ears, and by their slothfulness. For Cure give them three or four Mornings (when they have no Meat to put over) a Pill of Butter as big as a Nut, well washt in Rose-Water, and mixt with Hony of Roses and fine Sugar. They must be [ 50] held on the Fist until they have made one or two Mewts; Then take four Drams of Rue-seed, two Drams of Aloes-Epatick, and one Scruple of Saffron; all which beat to fine Powder, and mix with the Hony of Roses to make a Pill, which give them, and it will purge and scour their Heads, and about two hours after give them some good hot Meat.

When the Nares of your Hawk are stuft up with filth, after a convenient Scouring, take [ 60] Pepper and Mustard-seed beaten to fine Powder, and put it into a clean Linnen-Cloth, and steep it a good space in strong White-Wine Vinegar, and put some drops thereof upon her Nares, that they may pierce in, which will much scour her Head.