Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals,: containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy. Index of Latine names, with their English names. Universall index of the use and vertues. / By Robert Lovell. St. C.C. Oxon. philotheologiatronomos.

XI. The vices of the mouth.

1. The inflammation thereof, which is caused, by bloud, and hot and bilious humours, &c. it's cured, as other inflammations, by phlebotomy, purgation, refrigerants, repellers, astringents, discu∣tients, whey, the decoction of plantain, diamoron, maturation if need, figgs, and honey, &c.

2. The aphthae, which are certaine fiery exulcerations, in the upper superficies of the mouth, caused, by sharp meates, bad humours and vapours; they are cured, by a∣stringents, repellers, discutients, maturants if need; by extersives if sordid, stronger astringents, and escharoticks, stronger or weaker according to the patient: For if in infants, from sharp or salt milk, by cydoniats, purselane, diamoron, & astringent syrups; if pituitous, by astringent discutients, frankincense, mastick, &c. & rosat honey if livid; if adult, they are to be stronger, with phlebotomy, evacua∣tion, stomaticks astringent and drying, diamoron, alum, spirit of vitriol, mucilages, and saccharate water; if putrid as ulcers, by the green water, alum, aegyptiacum with rosate honey, and plantain water, quinces, lettuce, and cold dier, avoiding things sharp, salt, or acid.

3. The corruption of the bone of the pallat, which is caused by wounds or corrosive humours; it's to be cured by abste••sives and dryers, and helped by a golden plate, if need.

4. The stink of the mouth, which is a stinking of the breath, caused, by a foetid va∣pour, passing out thereof by reason of meate, excrements of the intestines, faetid humours, and wormes; it's cured, by odorats, nut∣meg, myrrhe, muske, pills, troches, and rosate honey; if from the stomach,

by evacuants, corrigents, roborants, aloephangin pills, aroma∣ticks, diacydoniats & dianisum; if frō wormes &c. according, to the cause.