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.

VII. The diseases and symptomes of the heart.

1. The diseases of the pericard, which are wormes, caused, by putrefaction, and are cured, or killed by garlick, radish, cresses, tansey, gentian and myrrhe, being humected in water, & used to the mouth of the in∣fant.

2. The distempers of the heart, which, if they are caused, by heate, they are cured, by refrigerants, cordial waters and syrups, &c. topicks, diet, and purgers if need; if from cold, by calefacients, internal & external; if moist, by diet, & dryers; if dry, by humecters; if of the whole substance, by alexipharmicks; if tabid, use the juyce of radish.

3. The palpitation of the heart, which is a composit mo∣tion thereof, expelling what is troublesome, attracting what is profitable, and restoring what is deficient, inordinate, from dilata∣tion and subsidence, caused, by vapours, humours, tumours, worms, defect of spirit, and hot distempers; it's cured if from flatulency and vapours, by phlebotomy, apertion of the haemorrhoids, evacuation by epicrasis, discutients, corroborants, oile of citrons, electuaries, syrups, epithems, unguents, odorats, & clysters, &c. if from humours,

by phlebotomy, purgers, discutients, internal and external, dryers, vesicatories, cauteries; and corroborants; if from wormes, by evacuants, and bozoardicks; if from defect of spirits, by re∣ficients and corroborants; if from heate, by antifebriticks, &c. with suteable diet.

4. The imbecility of strength, which is caused, by the defect of spirits, & innate heate & humidity primogenit; & is cured, by temperants, cordials, odorats, and vineger, odoriferous and re∣stauratory waters, juleps, electuaries, & analeptick & polytrophick diet, &c.

5. The lypothymy and syncope, or fainting, which is a quick and suddain defect of all the forces, chiefely, the vital, with a pulse almost abolished, and cold sweat, caused, by great debility of the heart, vice and defect of the vital spirits, the rest of which flow from the body, to the center: It's called also eclysis, leipop∣fychy, and asphyxie, &c. it's cured, in the paroxysme, by conser∣vation and cherishing of the spirits, applying rosewater, vineger, and cordials, irrorating the face and temples, epithems, fomenta∣tions, sacculs, inunctions, wine, aqua vitae if cold, frictions, con∣cussion of the body, noise, & friction of the tongue, if from dissipa∣tion by rest, if from defect of spirits by wine having bread dipt in it; if from corruption of the spirits, by friction, cupping-glasses, vo∣mitories, purgers, cordials, & alexipharmicks; If from evacuation, by friction, ligature, cupping-glasses, & stoppers; if from sweating, by astringents, & irroration with rosewater, using the oile of roses and quinces to the breast armepits and groin, &c. smelling on coo∣ling things, & taking syrup of limmons & wood sorrel; if from suf∣focation, by frictions, ligatures, & cupping-glasses; if plenitude, by phlebotomy; if from the quantity of crude juyce, by friction, using oile of chamomile after it, oxymel, & fasting; in feare, by evacuation; out of the paroxysme, by analepticks, and corroborants; if from paine, by lenients, stupefacients, and cordials with things respecting the cause; if from a thin matter troubling the stomach, by aloephan∣gin pils, tamarinds & laxative syrup of roses, contrary diet, gellies, and broths, with the juyce of citrons, &c. according to the cause.