If, however, the spot be red, the disease is the second or parasitic kind. The treatment in both cases is the same, with a difference. Treatment: prick the red spot with a needle and induce a flow of blood. Mix vinegar and ox-gall, and paint it on the affected spot. Item: take carbonate of soda,[710] blue-stone, sal-ammoniac, “yellow aloes,”[711] and long pepper,[712] a grain[713] of each, and three black raisins: pound and mix. Prick the injured spot with a needle, and wash with strong vinegar. Then apply the powder and she will recover. This is the practice of the ancient falconers. Item: when the feather falls out, wait till a new one takes its place;[714] then before the stage has arrived when it will fall out, pluck it out by force and do this three times. The fourth time let the feather reach maturity. This, too, is a receipt of the ancient falconers.
FOOTNOTES:
[704] Par-k͟hura or par-k͟huragī, P.; qārishqa appears to be the Turkish name of the disease.
[705] Daʿu ´l-qaml, lit. “disease of lice.” By this term the author probably refers to some parasite other than the louse, i.e., other than the common louse.
[706] Flight-feathers that are pulled out never grow again; tail-feathers sometimes do; vide page 177, note [752].
[707] Būqa.
[708] Qaml, Ar.
[709] Rashmīz, either white-ant or weevil.
[710] Būra-yi Armanī, crude carbonate of soda.
[711] i.e., Socotrinæ aloes, which are yellow.