FOOTNOTES:
[721] K͟hazīna.
[722] Vide Latham’s The Falcon’s Lure and Cure, Book I, Part II, Chap. xlii, for a receipt: “To kill the ranckness and itching that sometimes will be in Hawkes bloody feathers, which is the cause she pulls them forth in that estate.” The disease referred to is not uncommon in cage birds that are carelessly tended, but I have never met with it in trained hawks in India.
CHAPTER LIV
HEAT-STROKE[723]
If your hawk mope, and the feathers of her head stand on end, and her mutes, too, be red as though there were drops of blood in them, it is a sign that she is suffering from heat-stroke. Treatment: mix a little saffron and sugar-candy and give it to her at meals, concealed in a fold of meat: the quantity of the dose depends on the size and the constitution of the hawk. Feed her on cooling meats, such as cockerels, jerboa-rats, and tortoises. With every meal give her cucumber juice with juice of ispaghul (as previously mentioned under chālma[724]), so that her liver may be cooled thereby.
FOOTNOTES:
[723] Garmā-zadagī.
[724] Vide page 165.
CHAPTER LV
PALSY, ETC.
Akmaja is a disease akin to paralysis, palsy, and epilepsy, but is yet none of these three. The hawk grows thin without any apparent cause, and her tail and wings seem palsied. Sometimes this distressing symptom will so overpower her that she will at one time fall on her face, at another on her back, and be unable to sit on the fist. Sometimes, too, she will cast her “gorge”.[725] As a rule this disease, which generally occurs amongst short-winged hawks, is fatal. The cause of it is stale meat[726] (mutton, she-goat, or hare, two or three days old), given her by your ignorant falconer, who has afterwards placed her in a damp room. Treatment: at once brand her with a stick of log-wood, branding her four limbs with lines, and branding also her oil-bottle, her forehead, and between her nostrils from the direction of both eyes. Feed her on pigeons. Give her one nuk͟hūd of quinine:—