Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.

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Title: Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
Author: Royal College of Physicians of London.
Publication: London :: Printed for Peter Cole ...,; 1653.
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CHAP. 4. Of Medicines apropriated to the Stomach.

BY Stomach, I mean that Ventricle which con∣tains the Food till it be concocted into Chyle.

Medicines apropriated to the Stomach are usually called Stomachicals.

The infirmities usually incident co the Stomach are Three.

1. Appetite lost.
2. Digestion weakened.
3. The retentive Faculty corrupted.

When Appetite is lost, the man feels no hunger when his Body needs Nourishment.

When Digestion is weakened it is not able to con∣coct the meat received into the Stomach, but it pu∣trifies there.

When the retentive Faculty is spoiled, the Sto∣mach is not able to retain the Food till it be digested, but either vomits it up again, or causeth 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 tast, and yet withal of a grateful tast to the Pallat, for although loss of appetite may proceed from divers causes, as from Choller in the Stomach, or putrified humors or the like, yet such things as purge this Choller or humors, are properly called Orecticks, not Stomachicals; the former strengthen Appetite after these are expelled.
2. Such Medicines help Digestion as strengthen the Stomach, either by convenient heat, or Aroma∣tical (viz. spicy) faculty, by hidden property, or congruity of Nature; by which last, the inner skin of a Hens Gizzard dried and beaten to Pouder and taken in Wine in the morning fasting is an exceeding strengthener of Digestion, because those Creatures have such strong Digestions themselves.
3. The retentive Faculty of the Stomach is cor∣rected 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 apropriated to the Stomach.

For the Use of these.

1. Use not such Medicines as provoke Appetite be∣fore* 1.1 you have clensed the Stomach of what hinders it.
2. Such Medicines as help Digestion (which the* 1.2 Greeks call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) give them a good time before meat that so they may pass to the bottom of the Sto∣mach (for the digestive Faculty lies there) before the food come into it.
3. Such as strengthen the retentive Faculty, give* 1.3 them a little before meat, if to stay Fluxes; a little after meat, if to stay vomiting.

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