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.

XIX. The diseases of the pu∣dend, and neck of the womb.

1. The narrownesse thereof, which is a shutting of the same, or of its orifice, caused, by compression or coalition, and amplitude, is caused by frequent coiture and parturi∣tion; it's cured by astringents, purgation, fomentations, baths, a∣stringent pessaries, alum water, & astringent decoctions; if there be a rupture of the perinaeum, by emollients, reposition, future, tarre, and consolidating powders.

2. The feminine mentula, which is caused, by too much afflux of nutriment to the part, it's cured by evacuation, section, dryers, discutients, and astringents, causticks, burnt alum, aegyptiack, ligature with silk, and restrictive powders: The caudate affection, or carnose excrescence, is so helped also.

3. The shutting of the womb, which is caused, by conformation, wounds, and ulcers, it's cured, by section, V. P. by retraction and opening of the leggs; if from flesh, by dryers and discutients if need, cathereticks, burnt alum, & aegyptiack; if from a hard tumour, by emollients and resolvents; if from astringents, by emollients, as butter, and oile of sweet almonds.

4. The pustules & roughnesse of the pudend, which are caused, by an adust, malignant, and sharp humour; and are cured, by preparers, borrage, fumitory, and en∣dive, &c. evacuants, sena, syrup of apples R.S. of violets and roses solutive, diacatholicon, confectio hamech, pills of fumitory and tartar, phlebotomy if need, decoction of guaiacum, and sarsa∣parilla, using oile of roses and yolks of eggs, antipsoricks, and meat of good juyce, shunning things sharp, salt, and acid.

5. The con∣dylomatae

of the neck of the womb, which are swellings of the wrin∣kles, with heat and paine, caused, by a sharp and malignant hu∣mour; they are cured, V. P. by remedies against the french disease, topicks, anodynes if with inflammation, repellers & dryers, & dis∣cutients; emollients if hard, digerents, ficcants, scrophularia, pow∣der of eggeshels, burnt misy with turpentine, and balsam of mer∣cury.

6. The warts of the pudend and neck of the womb, which are caused by thick feculent and malignant humours; they are cured V. P. by medicaments, section, and ustion, exsiccants, discutients, erodents, and adurents, with defensives of bole, sealed earth, rose water & vineger, using corrosives in shells, and ligature with horse haire, &c.

7. The hemorrhoids of the womb, which are tubercles, like those of the anus, in the neck of the womb, caused, by the af∣flux of feculent bloud, they are cured, V.P. by purgation, revulsion, derivation, anodynes if need, fomentations, unguents, butter, oile of roses, poplar ointment, yolks of eggs, saffron, and opium if need; if they bleed not, they are helped by scarrification, sprinkling on a sharp and drying powder, bole and alum, &c. if bloody, by emol∣lients, aperients, and discutients, leeches, section, and extirpants; if the flux be great, by revulsion, cupping-glasses, frictions, ligatures, and stoppers of bloud with the white of an egg.

8. The ulcers of the neck of the womb, which are caused, by sharp humours, and things corrosive, they are cured, by evacuants, anodynes, emul∣sions, astringents, and dryers if pure; if deepe, by injecting the de∣coction of red roses, detersives if sordid, whey, barly water with honey, wormwood, myrrhe, turpentine, & alum; if sordid, by aegyp∣tiack or ointment of the Apostles; if creeping, by abstergents, dryers, and astringents, alum water, sarcoticks and cicatrizants, fumes, drying sulphureous and aluminous baths, traumaticks, turpentine with sugar, pills of bdellium, and milk and the conserve of roses if tabid.

9. The rhagades of the neck of the womb, or fissures, which are caused by laborious birth, afflux of sharp humours, and viscid; they are cured, if from violent coiture, by the decoction of roses, plantain, bole, and frankincense with the white of an egg; if from the flux of sharp humours, V. P. by topicks; if from inflammation, accordingly, by topicks, &c. according to the cause, and the fissures are to be cured, by things binding without biting, oile of lineseed, and roses, with the yolk of an egge, & ointment of mucilages with pompholix and burnt lead; if callous, by oile of lillies, turpentine, and wax; if malignant, by things helping fistula's; if itching and painful, by ointment of mucilages, white camphorat, pomatum, or

diapompholygos, moistening diet of good juyce, chickens, veale, broths, sorbile eggs, mallows, borage, ptisan, and sweet almonds, abstaining from things sharp & salt.

10. The fistula of the neck of the womb, which is caused, when the matter of abscesses is not eva∣cuated, and corrodeth; it's cured, by universal evacuations, palli∣atives, sudorificks, detersive and roborant injections, diapalma, drying potions of centory, agrimony, and betony, &c. topicks, gentian roots and bryony, used as tents, things taking away cal∣lus, section, ustion, remedies, aegyptiack, sublimat, causticks, deter∣sives, incarnants, & cicatrizants.

11. The cancer of the womb, which is caused, by menstruous adust bloud, and torrified humours flow∣ing thether; it's cured, by a fit diet, universal purgations, and me∣lanagogons, taking the powder of bozoar, sapphir and emerald, cooling & astringent topicks, & fomentations of plantain and night shade water, diapompholigos, herb Robert, & fomentations of mal∣lows, &c. if painful, by corrosives of antimony and arsnick if need, and chickens dissected, & applied.

12. The gangreen & sphacelus of the womb, which is caused, by inflammation, cancers, and ulcers, it's cured, by things hindering putrefaction, scarrification, washing with the decoction of wormwood, lupines and myrrhe, using ae∣gyptiack, the powder of aloes and myrrhe, amputation, ustion, liga∣ture, cordials external and internal, injections of night shade and plantain, taking the decoction of sorrel, scabious, and damask prunes, little refrigerating acid diet, and cathereticks, &c.