CHAPTER XLIXTHE SICKNESS CALLEDKARAJ,[693]WHICH IS COSTIVENESS
Thesymptoms of this disease are, that the soft feathers under the tail and round the vent are soiled by the mutes; that when muting the hawk raises her tail higher than usual, mutes with difficulty, and is unable to cast the mutes clear to a distance.
Treatment: feed the hawk for some days on the flesh of acockerel, sprinkling the flesh with the juice of the marsh-mallow;[694]feed her thus twice a day. Further, anoint the vent with almond or with olive oil.Item: vary her food, giving her pigeons and sparrows, and the larks called by the Arabsquṃburah. Apply the clyster-stick as already described, dipping the cotton-wool in oil of peach kernels, apricot kernels, and almonds; administer it before feeding her: give her also a pill of powdered sugar-candy[695]mixed in a pat of cow’s butter the size of two filberts. She will, please God, be cured. Keep water ever near her, that she may drink her fill.Item: take oil of apricot kernels, and powdered cummin seed,[696]a quantity equal to the size of a walnut. Sprinkle the powdered cummin seed on the vent; then anoint the vent and adjacent parts with the oil. Do this for three days in succession, and she shall be whole. This is the practice of the ancient falconers.Item: anoint her vent a few times with a mixture of oil of jasmine, white wax, and pitch.[697]Item: take marrow of the shin-bone of a goat and mix it with her food for a few days. If the goat be an old female, so much the better.
FOOTNOTES:[693]Apparently the “Stoone in the fundement” of theBoke of St. Albans.[694]K͟hat̤mī, the “Persian Hollyhock,” and the “Marsh-Mallow.” It is the latter that is used in medicine.[695]Powdered sugar-candy is a simple and harmless purge for hawks. About eighty grains’ weight is a suitable dose for a female peregrine in good condition.[696]There are two kinds of cummin seed, the black and the white: the former is used in cooking, the latter in medicine.[697]Zift, “pitch,” and also a kind of ointment said to be made of black damar.
[693]Apparently the “Stoone in the fundement” of theBoke of St. Albans.
[693]Apparently the “Stoone in the fundement” of theBoke of St. Albans.
[694]K͟hat̤mī, the “Persian Hollyhock,” and the “Marsh-Mallow.” It is the latter that is used in medicine.
[694]K͟hat̤mī, the “Persian Hollyhock,” and the “Marsh-Mallow.” It is the latter that is used in medicine.
[695]Powdered sugar-candy is a simple and harmless purge for hawks. About eighty grains’ weight is a suitable dose for a female peregrine in good condition.
[695]Powdered sugar-candy is a simple and harmless purge for hawks. About eighty grains’ weight is a suitable dose for a female peregrine in good condition.
[696]There are two kinds of cummin seed, the black and the white: the former is used in cooking, the latter in medicine.
[696]There are two kinds of cummin seed, the black and the white: the former is used in cooking, the latter in medicine.
[697]Zift, “pitch,” and also a kind of ointment said to be made of black damar.
[697]Zift, “pitch,” and also a kind of ointment said to be made of black damar.