BELLY STOPT. The Cause: Want of choler as in Jaundies, and af∣ter purgation, the choler and excre∣ments being voided out: when the choler by a sedentary life, and perpetu∣al bending of the body flyeth back to the stomach: from hunger, when all moisture is sucked from the starved parts, which happeneth also to those that grow well: Fleam, covering the Intestins. So in the life of J. Heurnius
A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.
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we read that J. Lipsius voided fleam by siege like to Guts: a hot Liver, hard Excrements, the Palsey. Laur. c••ns. 7.
The cure varieth as the cause is. If from hardnesse of Excrements, a purg∣ing Clyster bringeth forth the thin, and leaveth the thick behind; wherefore you shall give two or three Clysters merely emollient. After a purging Cly∣ster, emollients in meat are good, Whey, Malloes, fat things; much drink. Savanarola perswaded the Duke of Ferrara when he was bound three days, to walk bare-foot on a marble pave∣ment that was sprinkled with cold wa∣ter: when he had gone fifty paces, he went to stool exceedingly: But Brasa∣vola saith, This was a dangerous reme∣dy; for Torments and Flux of the Bel∣ly might follow. Some loose the Belly with rear Eggs, some with the smell of Purgatives, others hold them in their hands. Platerus used coughing and sneezing. Things are also profitably laid outwardly to the Navel. In chil∣dren it is stopped by Milk which is flegmatick, a weak stomach, error in Diet
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but not continual, with fainting and Diet, heat of the Liver, and they sel∣dom live healthfully.
The Cure. You must oppose the cause. The childs Nurse must use emollients, Honey of Roses solutive may be given; If the Passage for ••holer be obstructed, the decoction of the Roots of Grasse, Fennel, Asparagus, is convenient; the Belly must be moved by Suppositories and Clysters: The Belly must be a∣nointed with a softning Ointment, to which you may add sometimes some grains of Scammony & Coloquintida: let him drink such things as are loosening.