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.

XXVIII. The diseases of the duggs.

1. Their vitious mag∣nitude, which is caused by a great quantity of aliment, and attrahent heat, rest, retention of the menses, and handling, &c. it's cured, or prevented in virgins, by fit diet, repelling, cooling, and astrin∣gent topicks, linnen cloths applied, humected with water of plan∣tain, roses, mints, and hemlock, or the leaves thereof applied with vineger, as a cataplasme, powder of whetstones applied with oile of roses, and the same used under the armpits; in those that are de∣livered, it's helped, by exsiccants and discutients; the smalnesse thereof is caused by things hindering diverting and intercepting the afflux of blood; it's helped by good and copious diet, white wine, removing the intercipient, repellent and averting causes, using fomentations of warm water with emollient herbs, anointing with oile of sweet almonds, or the Indian nut, frictions, and gentle dropaces; if there be softnesse and flaccidity thereof; it's helped by copious aliment, afterwards using astringents, &c.

2. The swelling of the duggs by milk, which is caused, by reason of too great quan∣tity of blood, and retention of milk, the infant not drawing it out, or after weaning; it's cured, by sucking, or the suctory instrument, hindering the afflux, by epithems of rose-water, rose-vineger and alum, resolvers and consumers, mints, parsly, corriander, red cab∣bage, and bryony, or cataplasmes, of barly meale, beans, lentils, lupines, chamomil-flowers, wormwood and mints.

3. The inflam∣mation

and erysipelas of the duggs, which are caused, by blood, and quantity of milk, &c. it's cured by venesection in the ankle, if the courses are stopped, gentle purgers, alterants, refrigerants, lettuce, endive, plantain, and water lillies, gentle repellers, posca, and oile of roses with a cloth, lettuce, oile of roses and vineger, afterwards adding discutients, and using only discutients, at last; if hard, it's helped by emollients and attenuants, album graecum with turpentine, and oile of earth-worms, and suppurants if need, diachylon simple, or white bread boiled in milk, with saffron, aper∣tion in the lower part, mundificants, with turpentine and honey of roses, oile of roses and myrrh. The erysipelas, is helped by sudo∣rificks, harts horn, sealed earth, carduus benedictus and water of elder, resolvent topicks, applying scarlet or barly flower wet in elder water, avoiding external coolers and binders, and after cu∣ring it as the inflammation.

4. The ••••demd of the duggs, which is caused, by a pituitous humour, and suppression of the menses; it's cured, by a heating and drying diet, purgation, resolving discutient and roborant topicks, not too hot, or strong, fomentations, of sul∣phur, hysop, sage, organy, and chamomil flowers, anointing after with oile of chamomil, white lilles, and bayes, cataplasmes of bean meale, chamomil flowers, and cumin-seed, the melilot plaister, great diachylon, and that of bay-berries, and suppurants if need, roots of white lillies, bryony, and the ireat diachylon.

5. The scir∣rhus thereof, which is caused, by pituitous and melancholick hu∣mours, incrassated; it's cured, V. P. by remotion of the cause, e∣mollients, attenuants, and discutients, avoiding what may too much heat & attenuat, humect or mollify, using the decoction of mallows, faenigreek, and chamomil flowers, anointing with the oile of sweet almonds, chamomil, fats, calves marrow, and ointment of marsh∣mallows, the great diachylon, Vigo's plaister of frogs, or that of ammoniack; if it be illegitimate and degenerat into a cancer; it's cured, by universal evacuation, by venesection or purgation, emol∣lients with exsiccants, oile of roses, juyce of plantain, the plaister of frogs, adding juyce of night-shade if there be pain, causticks and section if need, aegyptiack, and stoppers of blood, &c. as in wounds.

6. The swellings of the glandules of the duggs, scrofula's and strumes, which are caused, by a thick humour, and retention of the menses, &c. they are cured, after universal purgation, by emollients and discutients that are more strong, suppurants if need, section, and causticks, &c.

7. The cancer of the dugs, which is cau∣sed, by vitious humours regurgitant, and adust; it's cured, by phle∣botomy,

purgation, anodyne specifick topicks, the juyce & water of night-shade, boiled snailes, oile of green frogs, remedies of lead, agri∣mony, & blessed thistle, taking the powder of burnt crabs, & herb robert, by extirpation, defensives, of oile of roses, wax & bole, bal∣sams, basilicon, and plaisters of gum elemi; if exulcerated, it's to be extirpated as before, with ustion, if great, things remooving the malignant matter, and stoppers of blood, often purging, open∣ing the hemorrhoids, and provoking the courses, taking triacle, & mithridate with borrage & sorrel water, chickens dissected and applied, Fuchsius his powder, precipitate, ointment of turpen∣tine and the yolk of an egg, the ammoniack plaister when young; and palliatives when old, and plates of lead, &c.

8. The ulcers and fistula's thereof, which are caused, by abscesses, they are cured, by universal evacuations, dryers of the milk, bands, and rest from mo∣tion of the next arm, abstersives, & cleansers, the roots of rhapon∣tick, zedoary, and leaves of agrimony boiled in white wine, with a leadden pipe in the bottom of the ulcer, consolidants, injecting astringent wine boiled with cypresse nuts, sumach, and agrimony; if fistulous, the orifice is to be inlarged, & the callus to be remooved, and then it's to be cured as other ulcers.

9. The narrownesse of the vessels in the duggs, which is caused, by thick humours, tumours, ulcers, and conformation; it's cured, by attenuants, fennel, dill, stone-parsly, anise-seed, earthworms, cataplasmes and fomentations thereof, and friction.

10. Haires therein, which are caused, by pu∣trifying blood, and are cured, by applying the flesh of sea crabs, or those of the river, &c.

11. The diseases of the nipples, sc. the short∣nesse thereof, which are helped, by the suctory instrument, and sucking by whelps, applying walnut shells halfe full of the rosin of the larch-tree; if the perforation be small, it's helped by of∣ten sucking; if fissures therein, they are prevented by wearing coverings of wax, with rosin of the firre-tree, and cured by oile of wax, ointment of lead, or tutty, populeon, and poma∣tum, and the paine in sucking may be prevented by an artificial nipple, covered with that of a young heifer, &c.