DISEASES OF THE NOSE
Should your hawk be unable to “tire” with force, and should she draw
her breath with difficulty and her crop become filled with air, it is
a sign that the air passages of her nostrils are blocked. _Treatment_:
for one or two days, give her, as “tiring” and food, the tough thigh
of a fowl; for the exertion of pulling at this will induce a flow of
water from her nostrils. Should this fail, pound some sneeze-wort[671]
very fine, and put it in a fine reed; place one end of the reed on the
hawk’s nostril, and blow into the reed so that the powder enters the
nostril. After a few sneezes, there should be a flow of water from the
nostrils, and the ailment should disappear. _Item_: mix the juice of
coriander seed with the juice of a turnip-radish, and drop this into
her nostrils, and she will be cured. _Item_: with a stick of log-wood,
brand her skull from the base of the yellow cere of her beak, upwards,
for a length of three barley-corns: if the brand be longer than three
barley-corns, it will reach the brain-pan and be injurious. This is a
last resort; for, as the Arab proverb has it, “The last of remedies is
the cautery.”