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 of the lungs.

1. The distemper of the same, which is a deflexion thereof from the natural temper to that which is preternatural, caused, by things external and internal, sc. po∣tions, and humours, &c. it's cured, if from heat, by refrigerants, as syrup of violets, &c. epithems, barly water, refrigerating herbes, and temperance; if cold, by corrigents, syrup of hysop, hot oiles, mulse, and well seasoned flesh; if humidity by corrigents, dryers,

decoction of guajacum, salt and sulphureous baths, aromaticks, suf∣fumigations, aromatick wine, dry diet, mountain birds, exer∣cise, and talking: &c. If drynesse, by violets, melons, tepid water, barly water, emulsions, sorbile eggs, veale, saxatile fishes, chic∣kens, shelfish, milk, sleepe, and quiet.

2. The peripneumony, or inflammation of the lungs, caused by the effusion of bloud, into the substance thereof, with a narrownesse of the breast, difficulty of breathing, acute feaver, and coughing; it's cured, as other in∣flammations, by averters, evacuation, maturants, resolvers, discus∣sers, phlebotomy, cupping-glasses, scarrification, ligature, clysters, lenients, pectoral decoctions, expectorants, inciders, topicks as in the pleurisy, plaisters, fomentations, inunctions, extenuating diet, ptisan with honey, after defluxion ceasing, fat broths, hydromel, oxymel, or hydrosaccharate, &c.

3. The straightnesse thereof, which is an interception of the vessels, caused by obstruction, com∣pression, or exsiccation, occasioning a cough oppression and diffi∣culty of respiration; it's cured, if from a cold and thick humour, by preparers, inciders, detersives, evacuants, violet troches, medicate wines, revulsives, derivation, vomit, clysters, diureticks, hume∣cters, oxymel, liquorice, turpentine, lohochs, inunctions, lini∣ments, exsiccants, absorbents, syrup of tobaco, pectoral waters, ro∣tuls, fumes, diet with hysop, melicrat, and mulse with thoracicks; if from flatulency, by discutients with pectorals; if from tubercles, by attenuants and dryers, mithridat, and chymical salts; if from the stone, by wood lice and honey; if from bloud, by stoppers and oxymel; if from drynesse, by almond milk, and syrup of violets, &c.

4. The apertion thereof, when the vessels that ought to be shut are opened, caused, by anastomosis, diapedesis, rexis, and diabrosis; it's cured, by phlebotomy, purgation, scarrification, re∣vulsion, leeches, frictions, ligatures, corrigents, dissolvers, oxy∣crat, oxymel, mumy, sperma ceti, consolidants, astringents, empla∣sticks, glutinants, lambatives, sealed troches, powders, myrtine oile, frankincense, & mastick; if from catarrhs, by diaspermaton, cerot of thapsia, the hematire with bole and syrup of purselain, diet thin astringent and emplastick, ptisan, conserve of roses, hogs flesh, milk, soft cheese, lettuce, purselain, hordeate water with sugar to cleanse, and chalybeat to glew, almond milk, and rest.

5. Stones. &c. which are caused by thick humours, dryed & hardened there; they are cured as the asthma; if caruncles by lohoch sanum and flowers of brimstone, &c.

6. The tubercles of the lungs, which are caused by the afflux or congestion of matter; they are cured,

by evacuation and agglutination as in their ulcers: The cure of its ••r••ps••, see in that of the breast afterwards.

7. The coalescency thereof to the side, by viscid phlegme chiefely, or external causes; it's cured, by preparers, evacuants, concocters, lenients, dryers, baths, laxants, concussion, ptisan, and surgery.

8. The wounds of the lungs, which are caused by violence, and cured, by sistents, evacuants, glutinants, phlebotomy, astringents & emplasticks, coolers topicks, bole, mastick, powders, vulnerary potions, diaspermaton, lohochs, section if need, thin diet, astringent, & emplastick, ptisan, quinces, and rest. &c.

9. The phthisick, or ulcer of the lungs, which is an exulceration of the same, by which the whole body is extenua∣ted, and wasteth away, caused, by a sharp corroding matter, with a gentle feaver, cough, and bloudy and purulent spitting; it's cured by evacuation, by gentle purgers, clysters, averters, detersives, saccharate water, turpentine, glutinants, the conserve of roses, myrtine syrup, lohochs, syrups, sulphur, fumes of frankincense, o∣dorats, topicks, colleticks, epuloticks, analepticks, refrigerants, h••mecters, amygdalats, antifebriticks, milk, Haly's powder, baths, diet of good juyce, of easy concoction & much nourishment, abster∣sive, glutinative, and consolidating, broths, hordears, snailes, mulse water with honey for abstersion, and barley water with sugar of roses as glutinative.