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.

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Lime-stone. Calcarius.

• P. It is found and had in diverse places in England.
• M. It is almost like marble.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Herach, Nure. Gall. Chaux.

LIme-stone. Schrod. T. is fiery, biting, burning, and in progresse of time causeth crusts, sc. the quick. V. being washed it dryeth without biting, and is therefore good against troublesome ul∣cers, sc. the venereous; as also against burnings, and other sores, that will not be easily cured. The lie thereof serveth to wash pu∣trid wounds withall, and to make ophthalmick waters of. The spirit is a great arcanum, in wasting and eradicating the stone, of whatso∣ever kind, or in whatsoever place it be: it is also used by apothe∣caries to dissolve crystall, crabs eyes, and the most hard stones: so Kesl. Basil. in Rep. l. p. it fixeth minerall volatil spirits. Caes. waters flowing by lime stones, do not a little corrode, and dry, yet without biting. Aldrovand. being mixed with vineger and oile of roses it ci∣catrizeth ulcers: the powder with hogs grease, rosin, and honey helps the kings evill, when washed it looseth its biting, but yet dryeth, and is used with oile and wax to cicatrize. with vineger and oile of roses it cureth burnings. when alive mixed with sope it's used as a potentiall cauterie. the water thereof helps fistula's, cancers, and rednesse of the eyes with raine water, and armoniack salt.

Load-stone. Magnes.

• P. About Iron mines, in Germany, Italy, and Norway.
• M. Of all mixtures of stones with a metallick matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heracleus, Herculeus, Nauticus lapis, Sideritis.

Load-stone. Caes. T. is attractive. V. Port. Ru. it draweth out the iron of arrowes sticking in wounds, Albert. Mag. Port. Ru. Myl. it be∣ing drunk draweth all humidity out of the body, causing a dropsie. Port. being applied to the head it helpeth all griefes thereof. Myl. being drunk it looseneth the belly, and thick humours: also some think that being taken in a small quantity, it preserveth youth. Plin. Ru. it's used in remedies for the eyes, helping the watering thereof. being burned and powdered it helps adustions. Gal. it hath the vertue of the Haematite: Diosc. therefore some boile it, and sell it for the same. Schrod. it bindeth and stoppeth thick and melancholick hu∣mours; yet it's seldome used. Some make a plaister thereof burnt, and wax, and commend it mightily as helping the paine of the gout. it may be corroborated, being cemented with live lime, and a gentle fire, if often quenched in the solution or oile of Mars. C. The best is that of the colour of iron. Barth. Ang. it's hot and dry 30. Aldrov. it helps the gonorrhaea in women. applied it helps those that are wounded by poysonsome weapons, it's used in the weapon salve.

Lynx-stone Lyncis L.

• P. In Germany, Borussia, Pomerania, and Helvetia.
• M. It is generated of the Lynxes urine.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Belemnites. Dactylus Idaeus. Lyncurius.

Lynx-stone. Caes. T. V. it helpeth the paine of the reines, and cureth the jaundise. Plin. it helps the stone. Diosc. drunk in water it helps the stomach, and flux of the belly. Schrod. it helps against the stone, as that of the Jewes, cureth wounds, and helpeth against the pleurisie. some think, that being drunk it helpeth against the night mare, and fascinations. as for the smell it is unpleasant, some say it helps the travail in women.