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BElching is called in Latin ructatio & ruc∣tuatio esculenta, quae fit ab homine saturo, because it comes most commonly after a full Stomach.
Any thing which breaks up from the Sto∣mach in the kind of a rift, or windy Vapour, and is expell'd by the Mouth with noise, may properly be called belching.
The cause of this distemper, is either out∣ward, * 1.1 or inward.
The outward is from windy food, or other flatuous things taken, as Beans, Pease, Radishes, &c.
The internal cause is either from a phleg∣matick viscous humour adhering to the Sto∣mach, where it is rarefied into wind by Aro∣maticks taken; or from the same viscous hu∣mour in the small Guts, turned into wind by Choler over fat, and volatile; and thence it is driven forward to the Stomach, where∣by the Fermentation of Food is deprav'd in∣to a noisome Crudity; whence Belches like rotten Eggs, &c. are rais'd, which doth dis∣tend and gnaw the Stomach.
If the Phlegmatick matter, which cleaveth * 1.2 to the Ventricle, or small Guts, be very tough, the belching is more hardly excluded; whence often a swelling, and troublesome Distensi∣on of the Stomach follows; & e contra.
The Cure may be safely and happily per∣form'd, * 1.3 onely by correcting, and educing the Phlegmatick viscous humours aboun∣ding; for which there are variety of Medi∣cines prescrib'd in the third and fourth Pages in the Cure of the Head-ach.
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