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.

Of Broken Wings, Legs and Thighs. [ 30]

IF a Hawk breaks her Wing, take Sanguis Draconis, Bole-Almoniack, Gum-Arabick, white Frankinsence, Mastick, and Aloessiccatrine, of each a like quantity, with some fine Meal; of these make a Powder, and temper it with the White of an Egg, and make thereof a Plaister, and when it is right Set, lay on the said Plaister gently, and cross her Wings one over another, [ 40] making her fast that she can't stir it, and re∣move not the Plaister in seven or eight days, nor stir the Wing when you lay on a fresh Plaister, and in about fifteen or twenty days it will be healed.

This Medicine serveth for her Wing, if out of Joynt, having first Set it, Splinter it up, and apply the Plaister as aforesaid. The like for the Leg, or any other Limb of her, always ob∣serving with great care to keep the place firmly [ 50] bound (but not too hard) that it doth not come out again in the Dressing, or otherwise, until it will well knit.