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 the Filander, or Back-Worm.

THis is a Distemper about the Reins, being very small Worms, which lye wrapt up in a thin Skin near that part; this Disease makes her poor, and if not timely prevented will kill her. The Signs of this Disease are her Poverty, her ruffling her Train, and her Croaking in the Night. This Disease is cured as before directed for the Worms, and feed her not in about two hours after; let it be warm and not much; and be sure too keep her warm all that day, lest she take cold. And it were not amiss if you gave her a Clove of Garlick so steeped in the Juice of Wormwood once a Month, being a great pre∣server of health, and prevents divers Distempers that Hawks are subject unto.

There is another sort of Filander that lies in the Gut or Pannel, being long, small, white and red Worms; For Cure, take Aloes, Epatick, Filings of Iron, Nutmeg, and so much Hony as will serve to make them into a Pill, which give her in the Morning so soon as she hath Cast, and after she hath Mewted it clean away give her good hot Meat.