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Show :37; ‘Y'I'wTatbologie of the Expwlflruc Facrtlty,&c. Book I. Part 11_ The faint Tone of Stomacic Fibres, proceeding from a cold and moili di. RCmCdies, llcmper in Hydropic Difeafes, doth figuifie Warm and drying and the deputation of the purple Liquor, is effected by purging and diuretic Nledicines, expelling by Urine and Stools , the warty Hecrements of the Blood and Stomach, whofe weak Tone is afterwards repaired by bitter and aliringent Remedies, as Wine prepared with Steel, and Decoétions of Gen. Iimz Roots, Ellllld-CJJIIPMZC, the tops of Centaur): the lels, and alfo Thirty or Forty drops of Elixir prupriemrir, taken three or four times a day in a draught of old and generous Rbcnifla Wine. The third kind of difaifeftion, incident to the Stomach, and that none of 3330335353 too slim" _ the lCaIi, is the depraved action of the expulfive Faculty, when it is recep. are Stomach the of Fibres the when aggrieved; §l""'l‘ili"r. much heightned and "LL: tivc of grear degrees of Contrad‘tion,then are inl'rituted by naure, as in Purgs , "so ings, Hyccops, Naufearings, Vomitings, and in both Purgings and Vomitings, " immediately fucceeding each other,as in a Difeafe called Cholera. In Purgings, the Stomach beginneth to contraét her right, annular, and oblique Fibres near the Left Orifice of the Stomach, where its, Cavity is lirf't leifened, and fiep by flep,more and more, as the Fibres contract themfelves toward the Pylorus, where, the Ventricle being contracted, mul't by confequence difcharge offenfive Humors out of the Confines of the Stomach, intothe 'Dnodenmn; f0 that Purging may be defcribed, an excretory Motion of Book I. Part I I. The Tat/yologie of the Expul/zbe Ezra/t}, Sec. 337 which being elofely detained, do break the Walls of the Veffels, and fet themfelves at Liberty: In like manner, the Aliment being Colliquated in the Retort of the Stomach by proper Liquors, is productive of fruitful {teams which would tear the COats of the Stomach ( when elevated into a Flatus), were they not made of a tough pliable nature, whereby the Tunicles may be extended to great Dimenfions, in which the Carnous and Nervous Fibres are {ireined beyond their due Limits, and do lofe much of their Tone and Vigor; and are rendred fometimes unable to Contract themfelves, to throw out thefe vexatious Combatants, unlefs relieved by hot Emollients, and Dif- cutients, and alfo Purgative Medicines; fome of which do lirengthen, and others do incite the weakned Stomacick' Fibres to do their Office, and do make way by Opening the Pylorm‘, to difcharge the Flatulent Matter into the lntefiines. And not only the Bilious, and Pancreatick Juices, Tranfinitted from the Guts and Flatulent Matter floating in the Stomach, but alfo the Serous Par- WSW" titles of the Blood, and Nervous Liquor, are turned out of the Extreamities 3:133:55: of the Arteries and Nerves, opened by Purging Medicines; which being févfhitgrfibk oppolite to Nature, and grating upon the tender inward Coat of the Ventricle, "‘"h‘ do turn out of Doors its unkindly Initiates. Purging Medicines do exert their Operation, fomewhat after this man- The Tm," the Ventricle, briskly performed by a vigorous tone of Fibres, gradually contra€ting themfelves from the Left to the Right Orifice, as from Term to Tenn: ner : A tincture being extraéied out of Purgatives , received into the lii‘ii'iit‘iiélii Vomiting is the unkindly Motion of the alimentary Liquor, and Reliques of Coat of the Ventriele, and into the Extreamities of the Arteries, and Net- ti; iriysrtcd Concoction,and the pituitous Humors incruf'ting the infide of the Stomach gas vous Fibrils, inferred into it, which being endued with an acute fenfe, do calily refent the {harp and pungent qualities of the Medicines, which are afterward imparted by nearnefs from the Nervous to the Carnous Fibres, (lodged in the middle Coat of the Scomach) being aggrieved with acid monnn WNW" and Liquors, ( tranfmitted from the Liver, alfo of the bilious and pancreatick . ~ * i f e‘" Pancreas, by an inverted perif'taltic Motion of the Duodenum, into the fiofihcf‘lfi‘m 35:12:" Ventricle, which doth folicit the Stomacic Fibres,by a troublefome importuniW PIC" mmm. . ty,to eyeét all offenfive Recrements,the bounds of the Stomach uptvard,wheren in it prudently confulteth its cafe and quiet; which is alfo frequently difcompofed by a thinner and more troublefome Matter 3 the refult of an ill Concoétion, received into the bofom of the Stomach, which I conceive is generated after this manner, Meat and Drink, are admitted into the Ventriele, and their Elaboration, in order to Digeition, is matured by Heat and Ferments, entring into the Compage of Aliment for their Diflblution, which being HOE , duly accomplilhed, many Steamsarife, and being at their own difpole, d0 quit the confines of the Stomach, Gulet, and Mouth, and embody With the Air, to which thefe Vapours are near akin: and thefc EfHuvia, ( [he caufes of Flatulency, the Concomitants of the Fermented Particles of Ali- ment,) being confined within the narrow inclofures of the Coats of the Stomach, do make a body confifiing of Elafiick parts made up of Air, and the fienmes (breathed out of the flatulent Aliment boiling in the StomaCh With which different Juices in the time of their Fermentation in the Stomach, Particles, WM", ",9 do enter into great Contefls, by realon of their Heterogeneous $231?" produétiv'e of great ftreams of Vapours, the caufes of a Flatus, which may be brought into aét after this manner, (if it may be proper to comparel'e Flam Stomach, doth infinuatc its more thin and volatil Particles, into the inward 09mm and vifcid Nlatter, as the caufe of Vapours, which being firft vented, then Bitter and Afrringenr Medicines are to be taken, to firengthen the infirm Tone of the Stomack. Naufeoulhefs implieth an Averfarion of fome troublefome Object, and the Naufwufncfs endeavours of the Stomach in order to Expulfion, feconded by the Buiiles of iiiaiiiesm" the Periflaltick Motion, {peaking a readinefs to Belchings and Vomitings, which being frequently attempted without Succefs, is attended with divers ill Conferiuents, by reafon the Stomach doth not barely refent an unpleafant Object with great Trouble, but is very aftive by the Contraé'tion of various Fibres, to expel fome real, or at leal't, oonceived Noifome Matter; which being feared within the Obliruéted Vellels, or lodged within the folds of the Stomach , or as being of f0 Clammy a temper, or f0 flubborn a difpofition, that Nature cannot be fo far Miflrefs of her Defign, as to dill charge the Oflimfive Matter, by a various Periltaltick Motion, either upward by V omiting, or downward by Stool, whereupon the frequent and laborious am inpts of the Stomach proving unfuccefsful, do determine in Naufeoufrush, Kekchings, and great dejefiion of Strength, Faintings, 6%. Thus I have Difcourfed of the nature of Naufeoufnefs, as preliminary to 5,22%" Operations of Nature with Art) as proceeding from Meat colliquated ln Drink '( impregnated with Ferments) as in a due Men/fruit»; , whereupon the Compage of the Aliment, is diffolvréd in the utenfrl of the Stomaclli after a manner of Shells of Filh, Coral,rPearl, and other concreted falme Vomiting, which hath fome affinity with the other, and in a manner diffe- "Y a "w" reth from it in degrees; as Vomiting is performed by {ironger Contractions $323???" of the Carnous Fibres, and as it Were with greater Convulfive Motions of iiiiémiixiih. the Nervous Fibrils, to free the ufeful allodgments of the Stomach from trou- blt‘fome Gueiis, as a great proportion of Salival Liquor, indifpofed with in a Matrace, whence B°di€5a are diffOlVCd by Liquors, as proper Menfirua acid and faline Particles coming out of the Oral Glands into the Ventrielc, great [tore of Steams do arife out of the hot folutions of Concreted Partiglfsv w lc which is alfo highly difcompofed with Aliment fuperabundant in quantity, , ff ~ or |