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.

XXI. The symptomes in the womb.

1. The imbecility thereof, which is a slowness & defect thereof, in its action, caused, by distemper & vice of the native heate, &c. it's cured, by things re∣storing heat & spirits, things aromatick, & which hinder the efflu∣vium of heat & spirits, & strengthen the substance of the womb, sc. aromaticks, diacalaminth, the rosate aromatick, diamosch, mithridat, and oile of lavender, and the like heaters, and dryers, meat of good juyce & much nourishment, chickens, capons, partridges, pigeons, veale, new eggs, almonds, dates, sack, and strong beere.

2. Itching of the womb, which is caused, by a salt, serous, and adust humour; it's cured, by evacuants, phlebotomy, temperants with fumitory, borrage, polypodie and sena, abstergents with plantain, &c. Ga∣lens refrigerant, or ointment of roses, and aegyptiack, or the enu∣late ointment with mercury, if need, and meats of good juyce, moistening and refrigerant.

3. Paine of the womb, which is a pain∣ful sense thereof, caused, by solution of continuity, from erosion, or distension; it's cured by anodynes, & narcoticks if need; if from fla∣tulency,

as from inflation; if from grumose bloud, by calefacients and attenuants, evaporations, baths, and inunctions, triacle, rue with honey, clysters of rue and seed of fenegreek, and triacle wa∣ter; if from narrownesse of the vessels, by phlebotomy, purgation, laxants, dilatants, insessions, inunctions and discutiens if from fla∣tulency and phlegme, injections, hysterick plaisters, cupping-glas∣ses, suffumigations of laudanum, storax and musk, & pessaries; if from malignant matter, by bezoar stone, angelica, triacle, and mi∣thridate; if from corruption of sperm, as suffocations, &c. accor∣ding to the cause.