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.

Brimstone. Sulphur.

• P. It is to be had in Italy. Bohemia. and Melos.
• M. Of the resin and fat of the earth, full of a vitriolat acidity.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Cibur. Rabrick. Chym. Akiboth. Ahusal. Tin.

BRimstone. K. as the naturall, and factitious. T. Diosc. sulphur heateth, discusseth, and quickly concocts. V. it helps coughs, shortness of breath, spitting of purulent matter, taken in an egge, or by fume; and so expels the birth; with turpentine it helps the leprosie, ringworme, and scabbed nailes. applied with vineger it helps the leprosie; and with rosin helps the wounds by scorpions; so with vineger, and those of the sea-dragon, with nitre it helpes the itch breaking out in the whole body, it cureth the jaundice; a spoonefull thereof being put upon the forehead, or taken in a soft egge. it cures heaviness of the head, and destillations: applied it hindereth sweating. it cureth the gout being anointed with water and nitre. the fume thereof taken in a funnell helpeth deafness, and the lethargy, it stops bloud flowing out of any part, and helps the eares bruised, being applied with wine or honey. Schrod. it dryeth, and is appropriated to the breast. so it openeth, incideth, & resists poy∣son, and the bitings of venemous beasts, provoking sweat, &c: there∣fore it helps the phthis••ck, plague, and pestilentiall feavers; outward∣ly it helps hard tumours, &c. C. the best is the purest, greenish, that easily inflamed; burning bright, and yeelding a more skie co∣loured smoake. The vitriolat Flowers of brimstone, resist putrefaction, provoke sweat, and dry, &c. therefore are good in the plague, and pestilentiall feavers, either by way of preservation or curation. they are also very profitably used in catarrhes, diseases of the lungs, and coughs, &c the D. is drach. 1. to the strong, drach. sem. to the young, and scrup. sem. for preservation, with the extract of elicampane. The gummmate or myrrhate flowers, are stronger than the simple, both in drying, and resisting putrefaction. Querc. in Pharm. rest. The sac∣charate, are better also than the former against the asthma, and other diseases of the lungs. Senn. Jnst. Tentzel. The white flowers of sulphur, are in vertue aad operation equall to the milk of brimstone. The corallate, are better than the common, and a balsam made

hereof is an excellent balsame for the lungs. The benzoinate, are preserved as smelling better, and of more vertue. Milke of brimstone, is a balsam for the lungs, and is therefore given against catarrhes, the flux of the head, asthma, phthisick, cough, collick, &c: it helps expectoration, intercepts defluxions to the joynts, and prevents and discusseth the windiness of the stomach and intestines. D. so much of the powder must bee mixed as may colour the vehickle white, and one spoonfull thereof may be given morning and evening: note the vehi∣cle must be some appropriate liquor; as the water of cinamon, bawm, or spirit of wine, &c. Quercetan giveth drach. 1. as a cathartick. The milke thereof of S. Closs. operates as that of Crollius; but because that it sometimes failes, or is but little precipitated, this infallible kind was invented. The spirit of sulphur, as it is scarce any thing else than the spirit of vitriol, so also it hath the same vertues, further∣more, it serveth against the plague, and asthma, &c. and is profita∣bly used outwardly in the falling down of the fundament; a little thereof being mixed with plantine water, and so applied with a spunge to the place affected: see Senn. Jnst. Begu. Gluckr. Tentzel. The acid water, acidity, or phlegme of brimstone works as the former spirit; but is less effectuall, and seldomer used. Croll. The water, or ens of the balsam of sulphur, is of the same use with the flowers, in the plague feavers, collick, obstructions, and other affections of the lungs. The linate oile of sulphur helps ulcers, and ripens pestilentiall botches. Tile∣man. The golden oile of brimstone, is given with good success in ca∣chexies, and obstructions of the bowels, and preserveth from the plague. The red oile is of great use in ripening pestilentiall buboes. The true oile of sulphur of S. Closs. is an excellent vulnerary remedy, taken inwardly, it cureth inward ulcers, resisteth the suffocation of the matrix, plague, collick, catarrhs, the asthma, empyema, and provo∣keth urine: the D. is 3 drops in some convenient syrup, or the yolk of an egge. Querc. in pharm. rest. Hartm. in pract. Senn. Jnst. Begu. and others. The turpentined balsam of sulphur, or rubinus thereof, is most excellent against the phthisick, for it's good to consolidate the ulcers of the lungs, it preserveth from the plague, and other con∣tagious diseases, also it serveth for the tincture of sulphur: the D. is g. 4. to 7. sc. separated from its solver, or 20. therewith. The compound balsame of sulphur, or balsame of life, worketh more strong∣ly than the simple. That of Rulandus to be used outwardly, is used in diverse griefes. The tincture of brimstone is more effectuall than the balsame. That of S. Closs. is used in the plague, feavers, the scurvey, obstructions of the liver, and diseases of the lungs: the D. is

8 drops. The crystals of the tincture of sulphur are given to g. 4. in some appropriate liquour. The salt of brimstone is very effectuall a∣gainst wormes. The essence of sulphur, is of great vertue to resist pu∣trefaction, the D. is 8 drops: in which essence if myrrhe, aloes, or spices are infused, and the tincture be, extracted by B. M. it's called the dead man's balsam. so Basil. in rep. lap. ph. Caes. Sulphureous wa∣ters heat, and greatly mollifie the nerves; therefore help resolutions, convulsions, tremblings, stupidity, and contractions; also they di∣scusse the swelling of the ioints, and ease paines of the hip, feet, or hands used in a bath; they cure the scab, ulcers, leprosie, and mor∣phew, paines of the liver, spleen, and womb, and wonderfully re∣solve tumours therein, but they laxe and weaken the stomach. Fal∣loo. the oile operates, as that of brimstone. Agric. brimstone is of a drawing nature: Cardan. being drunk or applied it helps the french pocks; but the oile is most effectuall. Plin. it helps the running at the nose, and distillations to the inferiour parts. applied with water it helps the gout. Gal. it's hot, and of thinne parts.