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.

XXVI. Symptomes about parturition.

1. Abortion, when the infant is borne before the fit time, caused, by too much cold, suddain terrour, lipothymy, anger, and fluxes, want of ali∣ment, and diseases of the womb, &c. it's cured, by laxants, & irrita∣tion of the expulsive faculty: preservation is by removing diseases, cocochymy and plethora; if from too much blood, by phlebotomy; if from cocochymy and cold humours, by evacuation, purging pes∣saries, heaters, dryers, and roborants, decoction of china and sarsa∣parilla, avoiding internal and external causes, ill smells, heat and cold, using temperate meats, of good juyce and easy concoction, not using much motion of the body or mind, venery, alterants, roborants, astringents, coral, conserve of roses, myrobalans, dates, syrup of quinces, magistery of coral taken in a sorbile egg, using the ointment Comitissae, to the loines, reines pecten and perinaeum, and astringent plaisters, wearing a load-stone at the navil.

2. The regimen of those that bring forth, who when neere the time of par∣turition, should shun stinking smells, and strong, astringent va∣pours, sweet smells, using meat of easy concoction and good juyce, abstaining from astringents and densants, sc. rice, hard eggs, birds and hard flesh, using broths with cinamon and saffron, lenients, repid baths of sweet water, with mallows, seed of faenigreek, line∣seed, and camonil flowers, afterwards anointing the belly, loines and uterine parts, with a liniment of the mucilage of the seed of marsh mallows, lineseed, oile of white lillies, sweet almonds, vio∣lets, fresh butter, and henns fat; the signes of parturition neer are, paine from the navil to the groin, falling of the upper parts, and extension of the lower, and it is natural, when the head is down∣wards, and the membrans are to be broken, by the midwife put∣ting her finger into the mouth of the womb; the patient being pla∣ced in a semilunate chaire, leaning backwards, and opening the leggs wide, is to retain the breath, when the womb openeth it selfe, and is to strive to expel the foetus; then is the midwife to comfort hir, and anoin the womb with oile of white lillies, in those that are fat, that have narrow pudends, dry, and at the first time of parturition, sitting on a low chair, and so receiving the in∣fant,

in a fine linnin cloth, pressing the bloud in the um∣bilical vessels towards the navil, and cutting it foure fingers off the belly, tying it gently an inch off applying a dubled cloth wet in oile of roses: also the secundine is first to be drawn out, putting in the hand anointed with hot oile, if need; those that stand by are to encourage, & presse down the belly, pre∣venting fainting by giving wine, distilled waters, and odorats, and they are to be such as are old, and have had experience of the pains of childbirth.

3. The difficult natural birth, which is caused, by the debility of the expulsive faculty and infant, or bignesse thereof, or the membrans of the womb if thick, and the womb and fis∣sure are narrow, and not slippery; it's cured, by things facilitating, almost like emmenonagogicks, sc. round birthwort, dittany of creet, seed of lavender, thyme, saffron, cinamon, cassia lignea, myrrh, oile of amber, mineral borax, cinamon water, and oile thereof, vervain water, powder of the secundine, sweet fumes, pessaries, unguents of savin, myrrh and galbanum, sternutatories, eagle stone, and coral, strengthning the patient with wine and nutmeg, confection of alchermes, diamoschum and hot diamargari∣ton; if there are twins, the midwife is to order them by her hand; if large, the ways are to be laxed and lubrified, by oiles and emol∣lient decoctions, oile of sweet almonds, fatts, and mucilages; so if there be tumours; if fatt, the site is to be directed; if the membrans are strong, they are to be broken by the fingers anointed with sweet oile; and if the foetus be weake, they are to te breathed into, after chewing aromaticks, anointing the mouth with honey, drop∣ping aquavitae on the tongue, using the same to the pulses and no∣strils, washing the foetus in wine or milk, putting a sacculus upon the head, made of nutmeg, mace, cloves, cinamon, wet with malme∣sey, & fomenting the navil with the same: the diet about the time of parturition, ought to be of easy concoction and good juyce, little in quantity & taken often, chicken broth, dates, & raisins, using laxant baths, anointing with oile of white lillies and sweet almonds, using in travel, sorbile eggs, and citron pills, &c.

4. The vitious birth, or difficult preternatural, which is caused, by the amplitude of the womb, and inordinate motion of the patient, and thicknesse of the involving membrans; it's cured, or helped, by the hand of the mid∣wife, anointed with oile, by putting the foetus back into the womb if with the feet foremost, or else taking by the hands, lubrifying the passages, and giving a sternutatory to the patient; if the armes and leggs are distorted, the patient is to be moved about, and the

womb to be pressed, till there be a more fit site; if the armes are stretched upwards, the patient is to be supinated, and the lower parts elevated, removing the pillow, pressing up the belly, and putting back the foetus till the head be turned; so also if onely one foot appeares, and the hands are joyned to the thighs, or else they are to be pressed together by the midwife, so if the knees are foremost, using volutation; if the hands are foremost, they are to be reduced to the sides, as before, and the parts are to be relaxed; if only one hand be foremost, the foetus is to be put back, till the site be natural; if the feet and hands be joyned, the feet are to be put upwards, and the armes to be reduced; so if the posteriours move to the mouth of the womb; or the site be transverse; or lateral; if the belly be forewards, the armes are to be taken hold of by the hands, and so the head is to be turned, or else the patient is to be had to bed as in the rest, that the position may be natural, by con∣cussion and motion; if there bee twins rightly mooving, that next the mouth of the womb, is first to be taken, yet the other is not to be let goe, lest the site becom worse; if the feet be forewards, one is to be taken by the arm, and the body is to be inverted, and so the other afterwards; if only one moove regularly, that is to be ta∣ken, and the other is to be reduced by volutation, &c. as afore∣said, till there be a precipitant and fit site.

5. Defect of parturition, and the dead foetus, which is caused, by weakness of the mother, foetus, or narrownesse of the passages, and death by defect or plenty of aliment, percussion, coughing, sternutation and diseases, &c. it's cured, by surgery, or section; and if dead, it's to be expelled by savin, dittany of creete, round birthwort, gentian, myrrh, ca∣stor, borax, powder of horses testicles, after emollient baths, ster∣nutatories, anointing the pudend with oile of sweet almonds, chamomile, and goose grease, purgers, external ocytocions, oint∣ment of sowbread, pessaries, suffumigations of asses hoofes, galba∣num, and castor, extraction after supination, as aforesaid, using fat injections, insessions, irrigations, and cataplasmes, dissection of the dead foetus, and eduction thereby, with analepticks, anodynes, prevention of symptomes, keeping the bed, using hen broth, eggs, cold diamargariton, diambra, electuary of gemms, with wine & bo∣rage water, roborants, fomenting with the decoction of mugwort, mallows, rosemary, wormwood, and hypericon, using the oint∣ment Comitissae.

6. The caesarean birth, which is to be preserved by keeping the mothers mouth open, and the womb warm, then is section to be made as in lithotomy, beginning at the top of the

womb and avoiding the spermatick vessels, and testicles, so taking out the foetus and secundine, wiping away the blood, and fomen∣ting with an astringent decoction, then using gastroraphia speedily, and so curing it as green wounds, preventing cold by unguents, cataplasmes, plaisters, and fomentation, &c. using pessaries, and in∣jections, those may be made of wax candles, or linnen covered with butter, hens fat, oile of roses, and the yolk of an egg; these may be abstersive, roborant and consolidating, of the decoction of mugwort, plantain, wormwood, marsh-mallowes, red roses, roots of birthwort, and salsa-parilla sod in chalybeat water, with hydromel and austere wine, with meat of good juyce, corrobora∣ting, clysters of red sugar, simple diaprune, fresh butter, rosate oile, and hens broth, &c.