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For Chapped Hands  a dessert spoonful of lemon a tea do Honey 1/2 do of Eau de Cologne a small piece of Camphor do spermacite  TR
For Birds  When asthmatic a penny stick of root liquorice to be cut in thin slices into a 1/2 pint of water to be simmered for 1/2 hour to be given instead of other water  NB. great care must be taken that it does not boil  Small quantity of fresh milk twice a week during Winter.  When moulting a little saffron in their water or thornseed.  When Breeding an egg boiled hard & chopped very fine  & mixed with crumbs of Bread to be given every morning twice a day when young ones are hatched.
Bird Docter. Andrewes 17 Old Compton St Soho  Seed Shop Keeble  St James Street
For canaries Canary & rafie.
For gold finches. Canary, linseed & Hemp
For Bullfinches. Canary & Hemp
For Foreign Birds. Meillet

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For Chapped Hands a dessert spoonful of lemon a tea do Honey 1/2 do of Eau de Cologne a small piece of Camphor do spermacite TR For Birds When asthmatic a penny stick of root liquorice to be cut in thin slices into a 1/2 pint of water to be simmered for 1/2 hour to be given instead of other water NB. great care must be taken that it does not boil Small quantity of fresh milk twice a week during Winter. When moulting a little saffron in their water or thornseed. When Breeding an egg boiled hard & chopped very fine & mixed with crumbs of Bread to be given every morning twice a day when young ones are hatched. Bird Docter. Andrewes 17 Old Compton St Soho Seed Shop Keeble St James Street For canaries Canary & rafie. For gold finches. Canary, linseed & Hemp For Bullfinches. Canary & Hemp For Foreign Birds. Meillet