Of yoxing. Chap. 46.
YOxing is a sowne of a violent moo∣uing of the stomack,* 1.1 and commeth of a crampy disposition of ye stomack: and it commeth of two causes. Principally of too great repletion or of abstinence & wa∣sting, & somtime of cold: by these māner causes ye sinews of ye stomack shrinke & riuell, ye which being shronk, yt bottome of ye stomacke is araied vpward, & the vertue of ruling & gouernance laboreth to settle ye bottōe & bring it into his own kind place: and so of such mouing vp∣ward & downward cōmeth a noise yt is called yoxing, as some men tel: or els as it séemeth to me when ye bottome of the stomak is arered, ye aire yt is in ye middle passeth out, & voideth by strēgth of put∣ting of ye lungs: & méeteth wt other aire, & passeth by straight passages, & maketh a