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Show 0f r/ye Stomach; of (Bea/fr. 280 Book I. Part I I, Book I. Part II. 0f t/ae flppctite of (flair/W of Operation, the chief ingredients that‘Circumfiantiate, and lalily, the caufe that conftitutes this ufeful Appetite of Hunger. Hot and dry according to (in/fin r, are the object of Hunger, Ari/fork, and his FollovVers, having afligned the Appetite of Hot and Dry, as the objeél‘ that entertaineth Hunger, which feemeth very firange, becaufe divers kinds of Aliment, as Proper Obieé‘ts (as any can be propounded) of Hunger, are of a contrary nature, Cold and Moifi7 or Tern. per-ate at lead, as all Liquid forms of Aliment made of Com ‘Milk, the moll: fimple and wholfome Diet, whereupon it is of mofl eafic Digefiion and lefs ofl‘enfive to the Stomach 3 which if more generally received, would prevent ill habits of Body, and variety of Difeafes (the neeeiiary produé‘ts perverteth the Acid, or rather the Saline difpofition of the Ferment relating of wanton Appetires) and leiien the Praétice of Phyiitians, and the ex. to the Stomach, into Sulphureous Diflempers, and the unltindly Eff i‘v‘e- penfe of long Courfes of Phyiick, the due puuifhment of Luxury, and Pom. pous Treats: Which do not chiefly confil't in the prime qualities of Hot and Dry, but in other more grateful Tafies of more delicious well tempered Acids and Sweets; which Italiam ( great Mafiers of Palates) call Dulce, 'Piqitimtr. Sweet and (oft Aliiiv'nt is the proper obyec} of Hunger, as taking o'l ihe toughnct's of the Veniricle. The obicfl of Hunger may he founded in Saline and Sulphureoiis and well tempered [lads and AIkalys. So that the (Ratio formalz'J, belonging to the proper objeét of Hunger, is not confiituted of hot and dry, but of fweet and lenient Aliment, which do countermand the roughnefs of the Stomach, and by it foft unevenneiies do fill up the Interltices of its Folds, and do give a check to the keen purfuit of Aliment, and fatisfie the troublefome importunity of the Appetite. Whereupon the Antients, have not f0 well as might be, placed the 0bjeét of Hunger in the more remote, and lefs ufeful firft Elementary qualities, which is more reafouably founded in the more near and aé'tive Chymical Principles of Saline and Sulphureous, and in well tempered Acids, and Al- kalys, as full of fixed and Volatil Spirits, the mfiruments of Fermentation, fiibfervient to the Concoétion of Aliment in the Stomach, by reducing it to a laudable Fluor ; which difpofeth it to a fecretion of Fluid and Alimentary parts, from the more folid and grofs Faeces, that the white liquor being Extraéi'ed, might be readily entertained into the Intel'tines, and Milky \ef fels, and be thence difpenfed into the Subclavian Veins, to affociate with the Blood, to give due fupplies to repair the decays of Nature. Learned Doé'tor Glyflim is of opinion, that the mol't effeutial part of Aliment confifteth in a nutritious fucculency, with which all Meat doth more or lefs abound, as being apt to be advanced into Cher 5 which is contained fame of the Ventricle, difordereth the due opening of the Compage of the Aliment, and fpoileth its natural Colliquation. The fecond difpofition of the Stomach productive of Hunger, is the firm Compage of the Stomach, wliiclrbeing a Nervous and Meinbranous part, confii'teth in a vigorous tone of its Fibres, as they are endued With a due ‘ T542321? EgfifgcfitpTrinififmoi . Tentenefs, which being loft in an ovei‘moiit difpofition, the tone of the ‘ ‘ '1 "" Ventriclc groweth flabby, and lax a which is alfo produced in the iminoderate heat of the Summer, weakning the firength of the Fibres, when the Vital and Animal Liquor and Spirits, are exhaufied by too much heat enlarging the Pores of the Skin And on the other fide, in a cold Seafon of the year, when the for-e Doors ( relating to the Surface of the Body) are {hut up, the : _ Fibres grow more tenfe, and the Appetite rendred more eager. 3:23:35; Appethe to order in Stomach, the of qualification eminent and The third Wk tire of Hunger, proceedeth from a quick Senfation, arifing from agood di- W115" ftnl'ation owfpolitiori of the Nervous Fibrils, feared in the inward Tunicle of the Stoin the mach ; which is a fine Contexture of Minute Nerves, lodged chiefly , ‘ ‘ ' ' ‘ ~ left Orifice (wmch is the Prime, if not the fole ieat of Hunger .3 "hereupon thcleft orifice of the Stomach gtovveth fiupid in {leepy Difiempers ot the Head in Comatofe, and Carous Indifpofitions, Lethargies, Epilepfies, Con- giggion or [he Nervous Fi< bmwmjm $31213",ng Stomach. vulfive Motions, Apoplexies, and the like, wherein the Appetite becometh faint and low, by reafon the acute fenfation of the Stomach is leilened, or Dr G, , wholly taken away. Judicious Doétor Glyfl‘on, afligneth another reafon of the Appetite of mubuifiiih Hunger, derived from the firuéiure of the Stomach, in relation to its divers Efficgffifif in it, as the Philofophers phrafe it, N071 in an" exerciro, fed in aéi'u figmto: Not actually, but virtually, by reafon Aliment hath not in it an Exil'tent Folds, which are feated in the inward Coat of the Ventricle, much exceed- S‘Omm' Milky Humour, but a Matter only praevioufly difpofed, confilting of a mild Unevenneifes, when it is empty; whereupon the inward Tunicle of the Stomach, being fenfible of thele Afperities, as Troublefome, hath a longing dcfire to repleniih it felf, and fill up the empty fpaces of the Folds, to free it liflf from the trouble of its Corrugations. The fourth requifite to difpofe the Stomach to Hunger, is the tendernefs, and delicacy of the inward Coat, Has dripped of any fenfelefs Covering, but that of Mucous Matter, with which it is lined 5 fo that the inward furface delicate Temper, as impraegnated with Fixed, Sulphureous, and Saline, allsied with fome Earthy Particles, which are the immediate objeé't of Himger. ' erisnnt ll‘ tllll Suction, liyrealot: it i: inton. ivilcnr WlEl'l the L‘irtiilation of Blood, uhlchis ma. izagtzl byqn llllullt‘. I-hving d'chourfed briefly of the Object, which externally aéteth the Stomach in reference to Hunger, I will now endeavour to recount fome requifite conditions, qualifying it in order to the appetite of Aliment, whichcon- (,Tl‘gfigflr‘fi; fifteth firlt of all in a laudable Conl'titution, flowing from the good temper limping": of the Blood -, which being removed in its unnatural Feverilh Ebullirion,pro- p?fitioriufthe duceth a naufeoufnefs, a faint Appetite, or rather an avetlion to Nouriflin hm ment.‘ But a (luefiion may be liarted, Upon what reafon, the unnatural heat dejeé‘teth the Appetite? Which is raifed upon this account : Becaufe it Galen, and his Admirers, phancy the objeét 'of Hunger to be feared in a kind of fenfe relating to Suction, with which the Stomach is affefied: This opinion laboureth under great difficulties, becaufe if there be any firth aélioni it muft be afligned to fome empty Veilels,attta&ing Liquor in to fatiate them, which doth fuit with the Arteries, which import Vital Juice to the Ventricle; nor doth this affertion comport with the Veins, which export tllc Blood imported into the fubltance of the Stomach by the Arteries So that this Conjeéture, that Hunger hath Suction for its Object, is oppofite to the :tcouomy of Nature, and the laws of Circulation, which is performed by an Impulfe, wherein one Particle of a fluid body preifeth another forward, which is inconfil'tent with Suction, or Attraction. Having ing the other in largenefs, whence it is contrafled into divers Furrows and Theromhm gummy"... rigiiésrit?'f§; $123532: of the Ventricle, when divefted of Pituitous Matter, is eafily Vellicated, as main. framed of a molt foft Compage, made up of Minute Fibrils, which are eaiily moleflted by an Acid, or rather Saline Ferment, the immediate caufe of . Hunoer Thelafld fp'a. . . . 1' ' The ultimate and mofi proper difpofition of the Stomach ( in which the stress; Flu;- nature of Hunger principally confifieth) is founded in a voracious temper of 503,553,, the inward Coat, which is quetulous and impottunate, when it is bereaved 533323151: 0f Alimentary liquor, which by its emollient temper, doth foften and 21:1: Stofweeten the Acid and Saline Particles'of the Ferment, contained in the Cavrty Dddd |
