384 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



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

 fold resisting of poison. 2. Digestion weakened. 



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

 and 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. \ ment. 



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

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

 this chapter, and they are such medicines, | 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. l^or as the operation of the for- be digested, but either vomits it up again, 

 mer is upon the poison, which afflicteth the or causes tiuxes. 



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

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



To this class may be referred all such | order. 



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

 a&tral 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 Hoss of appetite may proceed from divers 

 to man's, yet I question whether it be cor- 5 causes, as from choler in the stomach, or 

 dial or not. 5 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, j the former strengthen appetite after these 

 and also because they drive stinking and S 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 conve- 

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

 so are the vital spirits refreshed by all such ! by hidden property, or congruity of nature, 

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



from the heart, as Borrage, Bugloss, Rose- 

 mary, Citron Pills, the compositions of them, 



is corrected by binding medicines, yet not 

 by all binding medicines neither, for some 



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



arnpl^furnish you with. 1 by such binding medicines as are appro- 



.__ __. | priated to the stomach. 



TZTT For the use of these. 



rlAP I\ . fj se i u se no t sucn medicines as pro- 



Of Medicines appropriated to the stomach, j voke appetite before you have cleansed the 



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

 contains the food till it be concocted intoj Use 2. Such medicines as help digestion, 

 chyle. . \ give them a good time before meat that so 



Medicines appropriated to the stomach 

 are usually called stomachicals. 



The infirmities usually incident to the 

 stomach are three. 



they may pass to the bottom of the stomach, 

 (for the digestive faculty lies there,) befort 

 the food come into it. 



Use 3. Such as strengthen the retentive 



