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2. Such as resist poison; there is a two- \ 1. Appetite lost. 

 Ibid resisting of poison. 2. Digestion weakened. 



1. By an antipathy between the medicine] 3. The retentive faculty corrupted. 

 wid poison. When the appetite is lost, the man feels 



2. By a sympathy between the medicine and I no hunger when his body needs nourish- 

 the heart. j inent. 



Of the first we shall speak anon, in a? When digestion is weakened it is not 

 chapter by itself. The latter belongs to 1 able to concoct the meat received into the 

 this chapter, and they are such medicines, j stomach, but it putrifies there. 

 whose nature is to strengthen the heart, and \ When the retentive faculty is spoiled the 

 fortify it against the poison, as Rue, Ange- stomach is not able to retain the food till it 

 lica, &c. For as the operation of the for- be digested, but either vomits it up again, 



mer is upon the poison, which afflicteth the 



or causes fluxes. 



heart, so the operation of the latter is upon j Such medicines then as remedy all these, 

 the heart afflicted by the poison. jare called stomachicals. And of them in 



To this class may be referred all such j order. 



medicines as strengthen the heart either by i 1. Such as provoke appetite are usually 

 astral influence, or by likeness of substance, j of a sharp or sourish taste, and yet withal 

 if there be such a likeness in medicines, \ of a grateful taste to the palate, for although 

 for a Bullock's heart is of like substance I loss of appetite may proceed from clivers 

 to man's, yet I question whether it be cor- (causes, as from choler in the stomach, or 

 dial or not. i putrefied humours or the like, yet such 



3. And lastly, Such as refresh the spirits, j things as purge this choler or humours, are 

 and make them lively and active, both i properly called Orecticks, not stomachicals ; 

 because they are appropriated to the office, $ the former strengthen appetite after these 

 and also because they drive stinking and : are expelled. 



melancholy vapours from the heart, for as j 2. Such medicines help digestion as 

 the animal spirit be refreshed by fragrant j strengthen the stomach, either by convc- 

 smells, and the natural spirits by spices, jnient heat, or aromatic (viz. spicy) faculty, 

 so are the vilal spirits refreshed by all such: by hidden property, orcongruity of nature. 

 medicines as keep back melancholy vapours j 3. The retentive faculty of the stomach 

 from the heart, as Borrage, Bugloss, Rose- is corrected by binding medicines, yet not 



mary, Citron Pills, thecompositions of them, 



by all binding medicines neither, for some 



and many others, which this treatise will ; of them are adverse to the stomach, but 

 amply furnish you with. j by such binding medicines as are appro- 



? prialed to the stomach. 



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P W A PTFR T V - 



Use 1. Use not such medicines as pro- 



Of Medicines appropriated to the stomach. \ voke appetite before you have cleansed the 

 By stomachi I mean that ventricle which j stomach of what hinders it. 



contains the food till it be concocted into* Use 2. Such medicines as help digestion. 



chyle. jgi ve them a good time before meat that s< 



Medicines appropriated to the stomach j they may pass to the bottom of the stomach, 



are usually called stomachicals. K^ or tne digestive faculty lies there,) before 



The infirmities usually incident to the j the food come into it. 



stomach are three. Use 3. Such as strengthen the retentive 



