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.

IV. The diseases and symptomes of the nostrils,

1. The ulcers of the nostrils, which are caused by contusions, falls, wounds, and acrimony of salt phlegme, &c. they are cured, by

venesection, purgation, cupping-glasses, averters, dryers, robo∣rants, detersives, consolidants; if they are old and putrid, stinking and filthy, they are called ozoenae, arising from sharp malignant hu∣mours, and are cured, by mixt remedies, dryers, repellers, astrin∣gents, and discutients, detersives, consolidants, after universals, gar∣garismes, masticatories, and sternutatories; if corrosive, by the aegyp∣tiack & cerusse unguent, the decoction of guajacum, & diet without sharp and bilious juyce, avoiding calefacient causes.

2. The cancer of the nostrils, which is caused, by the ulcers thereof; and cured, V. P. by mitigants, and liquour of arsnick, &c.

3. The polypus, which is a carnose excrescency in the nostrils, hanging by certaine little roots, and sometimes out of the nostrils, or descending by the pallat, caused, by thick and viscid humours, chiefely phlegme mixed with bloud; it's cured, after universal evacuation of the body as in all affections of the head, by roborants, dryers, astringent frontals, cucupha's, section, defensives, cauteries, discutients, esca∣roticks, &c. as in the ozaena, attenuant discutient and drying to∣picks, corrosives, aegyptiack with a turund of gentian root, and palliatives, &c. if it be hard and painful without a certain figure, it's called sarcoma, and is neere the nostrils or pallat.

4. The nar∣rownesse of the nostrils, which is caused, by compression, constipa∣tion, or obstruction; it's cured, if from catarrhes, by evacuation, at∣tenuants, aperients, castor with vineger, errhines, & odorats, &c.

5. The wounds of the nostrils, which are caused, as others, and so cured, with fistules, &c.

The symptomes of the nostrils are.

1. Smelling hurt, the abolition of which is caused, by the distem∣per of the brain, or processes of the olfactory nerves, the same are the causes of imminution, the depravation is from putrid vapours; it's cured, if from distempers, by contraries; if from a cold and thick humour, by preparation, evacuation, apophlegmatismes, gar∣garismes, errhines, and ptarmicks, sinapismes, &c.

2. The stinck of the nostrils, which is caused, by a putrid vapour; it's cured, if from putrid humours, V. P. by revulsions, by errhines, abstersives, odorats, wine with myrrhe, &c. myrtine oile &c. if from the po∣lypus, ozaena, or ventricle, it's to be cured accordingly.

3. The haemorrhage of the nostrils, is an immoderate excretion of bloud, by the veines of the nose divided, rarefied, or opened, preternatural∣ly, and is caused, by whatsoever occasioneth the same, by anasto∣mosis, diaeresis, or diapedesis, it's cured, by phlebotomy, cupping-glasses, ligatures, frictions, application of cold water, purgation, coolers, opiats, cerats, astringents internal and external, crocus

martis with plantain water, sperniol, frontals, epithems, glutinants, frankincense, aloes, and the white of an egge with hares furre, spe∣cificks, causticks, alum, &c. and diet coole and binding, thin, little, with rest, the feet of animals, they being glutinous, hor∣deats, amygdalats, & emulsions, avoiding things that increase heate, sharpen, attenuate, and make the bloud fluxile.

4. Sternutation, or sneezing, which is an expulsion of flatuous spirits, and sharp va∣pours, offending the brain, violent and involuntary, through the nostrils; and is caused, by things external, or internal, sc. humours and vapours; it's cured, by evacuants, butter, milk, oile, the white of an egge, washing with cold water, ligature, friction, revulsion, retention of the breath, &c.

5. The coryza, which is a defluxion of the humours of the brain and excrements, crude and thin, like water, to the nostrils, together with much sneezing, caused, by a hot or cold distemper of the brain; it's cured, by universals, and diet as in the catarrhe, the fume of rose vineger taken, & marjerom water attracted; if cold, by the fume of frankincense; if sharp, by pomatum. &c.