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IN perfect Health nothing is wont to be evacuated up∣wards by the Mouth, wherefore whatever comes this way signifies Sickness, whether it be Meat, Wind, or a thick or thin Liquor.
When Wind comes forth with a Noise it is called Bel∣ching, when the Meat is ejected it is called Vomiting.
Nauseousness always precedes Vomiting, and sometimes Belching.
Wind by reason of the Clamminess of its Nature, sticks to the Stomach, and is difficultly excluded, and is often accompanied with an Inflation of the Stomach.
Belching arises from windy Meats, or from other flatulent things taken inwardly, as Chesnuts, Pease, Beans, Tur∣neps, Redishes, and the like, or from Flegmatick and viscid Humours sticking to the Stomach, and rarified to Wind by taking Aromaticks.
That the material cause of Wind, is a Flegmatick and clammy Humour, is evident from the Antecedent Causes; as from Meats of a like kind, viz. Milk, Fish, especially Sea-Fish, and the Feet of Animals, and Gellies; and from the Cure, which is wholly performed by evacuating and correcting Flegmatick Humours.
As in Belching, only Wind is evacuated, so in Vomiting, either Meat crude, or more or less fermented, or various sorts of Humours, as Watery, serous flegmatick, and cho∣lerick, and the like; thin, thick, white, yellow, green, Sky coloured, or black Humours, or the like, insipid, bit∣ter, acid, rough, sweet, stinking, or Humours without Taste, and sometimes bloody Matter, or Excrements.
All Vomiting is occasioned by the Stomach being Prima∣rily or Secondarily affected.
The Stomach is Primarily affected, when the Cause of Vomiting, or of the Peristaltick Motion inverted is in it self. It is Secondarily affected by consent from other Parts; and it is provoked to the Inversion of its Peristal∣tick Motion, in Part or altogether by the Peristaltick Mo∣tion of the Guts, which is sometimes occasioned by the violent Agitation of the Diaphragma, and of the Muscles of the Belly by a violent Cough.
The Stomach is primarily disposed to vomit, first when it is inflamed, excoriated, or ulcerated; then it is easily excited to any violent Contraction of it self from any sort of Nourishment taken. Secondly, When the Nourishment by its Quantity, and chiefly by its Quality, is troublesome to the Stomach. Thirdly, when sharp Humours from he Head fall upon the S••omach, and corrode the lower Orifice, and so occasion Vomiting.
From the total Inversion of the Peristaltick Motion of the Guts, Vomiting is occasioned, as in the Iliack Passion, whereby Glisters are often vomited up.
From the same Motion inverted in Part, Vomiting is occasioned frequently, as in the Cholera Morbus, and from any other Motion upwards of Humours fermenting in the small Guts, and by Reason of the Passage of the Ex∣crements stopped.
In a violent Cough the Diaphragm being shaken violent∣ly, Vomiting is occasioned; which we think to be caused by a conjunct Compression of all the Bowels contained in the Abdomen made towards the Breast, which mightily troubles the Stomach, and forces it to the Inversion of the natural Motion.
Vomiting oecasioned by things taken in at the Mouth, is quieted of its own accord, so soon as they are vomited up, or upon use of a few Aromaticks, and Opiats, it is stop∣ped and cured. For Instance,
Take of Mint-water two ounces, Tincture of Cinnamon two drams, London Landanum two grains, Syrup of Min•• half an ounce, mingle them, let the Sick take a spoonful of this Mixture by short Intervals, and the Vomiting will presently cease.
Sharp Humours flowing from the Head upon the Sto∣mach, are to be evacuated by proper Purges mentioned before, or corrected by Medicines, that alter and tempe∣rate the Noxious Acrimony.
Vomiting of Blood occasioned by the Rupture or Erosi∣on of the Vessels of the Stomach and Intestins, is cured by conglutinating them by the following Mixture, which is also useful in other Excresions of the Blood.
Take of Plantain-water two ounces, of Cinnamon two drams, distilled Vinegar half an ounce, of red Coral prepared half a dram, of Dragons-blood ten grains, of London Laudanum two grains, of Syrup of Mirtles one ounce; mingle them.
A Spoonful of this Mixture being taken often cures most Ruptures of the Vessels, and will ••top Fluxes of Blood in a short time beyond Expectation.
But Blood collected in the Stomach, the Flux, and the Vomiting of it being stopt, will be carried off of its own Ac∣cord
by Stool; but if there is danger of the Blood's co∣agulating, to the foregoing Mixture may be added half a dram of Crabs-eyes, and one scruple of Diaphoretick Anti∣mony.
Vomiting of Matter chiefly following an Inflammation of the Pancreas, or of some neighbouring Part, or some notable Ulcer, must be cured by curing the Primary Di∣stemper.
In the mean time you may use the above described Mix∣ture, with Crabs-eyes and Antimonium Diaphoreticum.
It will be also proper to give a drop of Balsam of Sul∣phur annisated in all the Liquor he takes.
The belching and generation of Wind will be cured by, First, avoiding Flegmatick and Windy Meats: Secondly, By inciding and evacuating clammy Flegm: Thirdly, By attemperating the Choler if it be acrid: Fourthly, By dis∣cussing the Wind that is already made.
Acids and Aromaticks, and volatile Salts, incide clam∣my Flegm, and Flegmagoges purge it off. Spirit of Nitre attemperates Choler when it is acrid better than any thing else; two or three drops of it being taken in common Beer, or in some convenient Mixture.
Most Spices discuss Wind, so do the Oyls of them, but especially the Seeds, Flowers, and Barks; but Spirit of Niter is better than all, for it corrects Choler and Flegm, and hinders the Generation of Wind, and discusses that which is generated. The following Mixture is also good to ex∣pel Wind from the Stomach and Bowels.
Take of the Waters of Mint, and Fennel, each two ounces; of Spirit of Wine rectified one ounce, of the sweet Spirit of Niter twenty drops, of London Laudanum three grains, of Oyl of Mace by Distillation six drops, of Syrup of Mint one ounce and an half; mingle them.
This Mixture must be taken by Spoonfuls, often or sel∣dom according to the degree of Pain, and Quantity of Wind.
Silvius's Carminative Spirit is made in the following manner.
Take of the Roots of Angelica one dram, of Master-wort,
and Galingal, each one dram and an half; of the Flowers of Rosemary, and Marjoram, Garden-rue, and of the Herb called Basilicon, and of the Tops of the lesser Cen∣taury, each half a handful; of Bay-berries three drams, of the Seeds of Angelica, Lovage, and Annise, each half an ounce; of Ginger, Nutmegs, and Mace, each one dram and an half; of Cinnamon six drams, of Cloves, and the Bark of Oranges, each one dram; cut them and pow∣der them grosly, and pour upon them twenty quarts of Maligo Wine; digest them two days in a Bath, then distil them till they are dry, pour all again upon the In∣gredients, and distil off three Fourths.