The Dovecote and the Aviary: Being Sketches of the Natural History of Pigeons and Other Domestic Birds in a Captive State, with Hints for Their ManagementW.S. Orr, 1851 - 458 pages |
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Page 173
... live Pigeon cut asunder along the back - bone , and clapt hot upon the head , mitigates fierce humours and dis- cusses melancholy sadness . Hence it is a most proper medicine in the phrensie , headache , melancholy , and gout . Some add ...
... live Pigeon cut asunder along the back - bone , and clapt hot upon the head , mitigates fierce humours and dis- cusses melancholy sadness . Hence it is a most proper medicine in the phrensie , headache , melancholy , and gout . Some add ...
Page 234
... live under the do- minion of Man . The flesh , as we know from personal experiment , is particularly delicious . " 66 More lately , the author of the article on Poultry in Knight's Farmer's Library , " only just completed , an able ...
... live under the do- minion of Man . The flesh , as we know from personal experiment , is particularly delicious . " 66 More lately , the author of the article on Poultry in Knight's Farmer's Library , " only just completed , an able ...
Page 367
... live Moas having been seen ; one , that the enormous size ( higher than our storied houses ) , fright- ened the person , an Englishman , who was going to shoot it ; but I don't believe any one has seen a live one lately . I intend to ...
... live Moas having been seen ; one , that the enormous size ( higher than our storied houses ) , fright- ened the person , an Englishman , who was going to shoot it ; but I don't believe any one has seen a live one lately . I intend to ...
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The Dovecote and the Aviary: Being Sketches of the Natural History of ... Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2018 |
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