Note 682 — Chapter XLVIII · ON PALPITATION[682]

K͟hafaqān, properly “palpitation of the heart.” The disease described under this name appears to be identical with the “Teyne” of the Boke of St. Albans and with the “Pantas” of other writers. Markham describes the latter as “A dangerous disease in hawks whereof few escape that are afflicted therewith; it proceeds from the lungs being as it were baked by excessive heat, that the hawk cannot draw her breath and when drawn cannot emit it again; and you may judge of the beginning of this evil by the hawk’s labouring much in the pannel, moving her train often up and down at each motion of her pannel, and many times she cannot mute nor slice off; if she does, she drops it fast by her. The same distemper is also perceived by the hawk’s frequent opening her clap and beak.”