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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
2. Such as resist poison; there is a two- 
fold resisting of poison. 
1. By an antipathy between the medi- 
cine and poison. 
2. Byasympathy between the medicine 
and the heart. 
Of the first we shall speak anon, in a 
chapter by itself. The latter belongs to 
this chapter, and they are such medicines, 
whose nature is to strengthen the heart, and 
fortify it against the poison, as Rue, Ange- 
lica, &c. For as the operation of the for- 
mer is upon the poison, which afflicteth the 
heart, so the operation of the latter is upon 
the heart afflicted by the poison. 
To this class may be referred all such 
medicines as strengthen the heart either by 
astral influence, or by likeness of substance 
if there be such a likeness in medicines, 
for a Bullock’s heart is of like substance 
to man’s, yet I question whether it be cor- 
dial or not. 
3. And lastly, Such as refresh the 
spirits, and make them lively and active, 
both because they are appropriated to the 
office, and also because they drive stinking 
and melancholy vapours from the heart, for 
as the animal spirit be refreshed by fra- 
grant smells, and the natural spirits by 
spices, so are the vital spirits refreshed by 
all such medicines as keep back melancholy 
vapours from the heart, as Borrage, Bug- 
loss, Rosemary, Citron Pills, the composi- 
tions of them, and many others, which this 
treatise will amply furnish you with. 
pone etre 
CHAPTER IV. 
Of Medicines appropriated to the stomach. 
By stomach, I mean that ventricle which 
contains the food till it be concocted into 
chyle. 
__ Medicines appropriated to the stomach 
are usually called stomachicals. ; 
oS The infirmities usually incident to the 
1. Appetite lost. 
2. Digestion weakened. 
3. The retentive faculty corrupted. 
When the appetite is lost, the man feels 
no hunger when his body needs nourish- 
ment. 
When digestion is weakened it is not 
able to concoct the meat received into the 
stomach, but it putrifies there. 
When the retentive faculty is spoiled the 
stomach is not able to retain the food till 
it be digested, but either vomits it up again, 
or causes fluxes. 
Such medicines then as remedy all these, 
are called stomachicals. And of them in 
order. 
1. Such as provoke appetite are usually 
of a sharp or sourish taste, and yet withal 
of a grateful taste to the palate, for al- 
though loss of appetite may proceed from 
divers causes, as from choler in the stom- 
ach, or putrefied humours or the like, yet 
such things as purge this choler or humours, 
are properly called Orecticks, not stom- 
achicals; the former strengthen appetite 
after these are expelled. 
2. Such medicines help digestion as 
strengthen the stomach, either by conve- 
nient heat, or aromatic (viz. spicy) faculty, 
by hidden property, or congruity of nature. 
8. The retentive faculty of the stomach 
is corrected by binding medicines, yet not 
by all binding medicines neither, for some 
of them are adverse to the stomach, but 
by such binding medicines as are appro- 
priated to the stomach. 
For the use of these. 
Use 1. Use not such medicines as pro- 
voke appetite before you have cleansed the 
stomach of what hinders it. 
Use 2. Such medicines as help digestion, 
give them a good time before meat that so 
they may pass to the bottom of the stomach, 
(for the digestive faculty lies ne before 
the food come into it. 
Use 8. Such as strengthen the retentive 
