cold raiseth no vapours because it cannot extenuate nor dissolve nor concoct so vehement heat overcomes for the most part what is comprehended extenuates the food beyond the generation of vapours except it be such as easily turns to wind If the heat be weak it dissolves the food but doth not concoct perfectly and hence comes wind And as in external things as a cold season chiefly when the North wind blows makes the air clearer and a very hot season makes the air pure but the middle constitution of air produceth clouds so it is in Animals heat when very weak or very strong doth not cause wind but the mean between both But Galen 12. Meth. med saith that wind is not only from a mean but vehement heat as appears by their generation there mentioned and by his way of cure For he saith if by any accident a vaporous spirit be joyned with gross glutinous humours that cannot break forth of the body there is very great pain and that from two causes obstruction or heat For obstruction keeps the wind in and gross glutinous matter when it is hot causeth wind And a little after how then saith he shall we cure those pains which a cold humour shut up in the guts hath caused Not by Cataplasms and Fomentations which heat violently for all clammy humours that are gross and cold are discussed into wind by things that heat except they also strongly digest Therefore they must be cut and concocted at the same time by attenuaters which are not too hot From these words of Galen it appears that a vehement heat doth not hinder breeding of wind or discuss them being bred but will cause them from the subject matter to breed anew when they were gone Therefore Lib. 3. cap. 43. he saith we must beware of nothing more in the abundance of such humours then immoderate heat that will melt them and turn them into wind but not digest them The Italian Doctor knew this well who as Paul Aegineta saith cured almost all Colicks with cold remedies and Paul knew it when he wrote that pains from cold clammy and tough humours are to be cured with respect that the medicines be not vehement hot for so they will be melted and turned more to winds Also strong heat doth not only make wind of flegm which it cannot consume but also of any over-much moisture received as in such as have drunk too much Wine or Beer or Broth or stuffed themselves with any gross or clammy food which the heat cannot consume So vehement heat also raiseth wind This is clear in Feavers also in which though preternatural heat abound much drink swells the belly because Nature is thereby restrained Therefore three things are required in the breeding and understanding of Wind heat naturally too weak or so by oppression that the part be sensible and fit and the matter proper to produce wind CHAP. VI. Of the Differences of Wind bred in the Body THe wind is of divers natures one sort is quiet another moved The quiet is gross and of flow motion cloudy and cold that brings seldom any Symptoms but a swollen Belly and Hypochondria without much pain This troubles such commonly that drink thick sweet Ale or Milk or Water between meals chiefly for that corrupts concoction and weakneth the action of the stomach as if you should pour cold water into a boiling Kettle and thence there will be cloudy vapours and fluctuations that will swell the Belly like a Drum which will fall with sobriety and a stool or two But if it stay long between the tunicles of the guts it threatens a dangerous Colick A moved wind because it is thin and running about with great pain is like a changeable Proteus It is either cast out or retained goes forth with or without noise by the mouth or Fundament By the mouth the belch is sour or smoak-like and unsavory by the Fundament it is with or without noise These are of so much concernment in the body of man as the Stoicks according to Cicero Lib. 9. epist epist 22. said that a fart ought to be as free as a belch And Claudius Caesar made an Edict to give leave for any to fart at meat because he knew one endangered by refraining through modesty Suet in vita Claudii cap. 23. But when wind is sent out at neither part but detained it causeth a swelling a Symptom of the stomach not able through weakness to expel the abounding cloudy spirit Also Galen 3. Symp. caus lib. 6. cap. 6. saith there are divers parts of the guts in which the wind moves which though they have not distinct names yet may they so be declared that any ingenious person may understand what kind and how much the excrement is and in what part it chiefly moves For if it sound sharp and shrill it is carried through the strait gut and is more pure and aerial If it puff up it will make a small noise while it goes through the small guts but not so sharp and shrill All these noises are in the spaces of the empty gut usually make the less noise the lower they go Other noises are humming like that of Pipes which cannot give a pure sound by reason of the matter they consist of and the passage being large makes the sound greater Such winds are in the thick guts when they are empty and if any moisture be contained in them it will cause a kind of Bombus which is a rumbling which shews a moist stool to be at hand because it is from Nature moving and it is moist because it rumbled before Also the noise that follows the stool if it rumbles signifies more stools but if it be pure and clear it shews that either the gut is empty or that hard excrements are in its upper part That which is shrill is from the straitness of the passages and little moisture We might here add the different sounds of the wind in the ear but we shall reserve that for the eleventh Chapter where we shall speak of the pains of the ears CHAP. VII How many kinds of Diseases are produced by Wind. GAlen made three chief sorts of Diseases a Similary Instrumental and a Common which is the solution of unity A similary disease is that which overthrows the natural constitution An Organical or Instrumental is that which hinders the fashion in conformation number magnitude or composition The Common is when unity is dissolved in part Let us see which of these wind will produce Hippocrates Lib. de flatibus saith when a body is full of food and much wind prevails and the meat lies long in the stomach and cannot get out for abundance and the lower belly is stopt or bound wind goes over all the body and gets chiefly to the parts full of blood and cools them And if the parts be cooled where the blood comes there is chilness over all the body For when all the blood is cold the whole body must be chill Galen
principal parts and falls swiftly upon sensible places and doth not only disturb them with its quality but pricks them with its thinness and stretcheth tears or wounds them for all biting or sharp causes that are moved whether hot or cold bring horrour and shaking to a living Creature Thirdly this spirit running to and fro troubles the expulsive faculty and the parts which provoked contract themselves speedily to expel the offender and so shake and tremble Therefore this wind in man being like other wind produceth the like effects Now we shall shew what it is CHAP. III. What this Wind in Man is NOne wrote better of this wind then Galen Lib. 3. de Symp. causis who saith it is a vapour raised from a humour or flegmatick meats or drinks or from weak heat But this is an imperfect definition for divers vapours go to the brain from food in the stomach as in Drunkards and in sore Eyes from consent of the stomach which are not called winds nor are they such But that flatuous spirit that is bred in the Hypochondrion from a melancholy humour is truly wind Therefore I would have this wind to be thus described more exactly A Flatus or wind is an abundance of vapours from spirits or meat or drink or flegm or melancholy raised from a weak heat in the body I say an abundance because a small vapour which the best constitution is never free from is not a wind or can puffe up As Galen Lib. 5. in Aph. 72. saith they are windy according to Hippocrates that have much wind in their bellies that is voided upwards or downwards or stretcheth the parts that hold it And Aristotle saith wind is only much air fluctuating or moving and stopped You shall know from Aristotle and what I shall say after why I call it an halitous spirit and not a vapour for none can get any certainty out of Galen in this that calls a spirit vapour wind and blast all one without distinction Therapeut 14. he saith a vaporous spirit is from juyces heated by degrees and that a vapour is an humour extenuated de Sympt caus lib. 1. de Simpl. med fac lib. 1. and Halitus is a mean or medium between the thinnest spirit and blood that is finished Lib. 3. de nat fac All these signifie the same thing therefore I shall not dispute them Nor is that against my definition that Galen saith if a greater heat fall upon a gross glutinous flegm it turns them into a thick or gross wind For though heat be strong yet in comparison of the quantity and quality of the humour it may be weak such as can raise a spirit but not lay it or dissolve it It is so in those that by intemperate drinking oppress the strongest heat We shall now shew in what parts this wind is bred CHAP. IV. Of the place where Wind is bred IN the former Chapter we shewed from Galen and Hippocrates that those were windy bodies that gathered much wind in their bellies which is voided upwards or downwards or that stretcheth the parts that hold it Hence it appears that the stomach and guts are the place of its breeding otherwise it could not go forth upward or downward So wind is bred in the Earth which after rain being warmed as Aristotle saith from above and from it self smoaketh and in this is the force of wind For when the Earth takes greatest force from water there must be most forcible vapours even as green wood burnt affords most smoak The stomach most resembles the Earth in man Galen comparing them saith that Nature made the stomach in stead of an Earth to Animals to be a store-house as the Earth is to Plants For the veins that go to the stomach such Chyle out of it to nourish the whole body as the roots of Trees do from the Earth it is a natural action in both They are alike but the Earth of it self is dry and sapless except watered it produceth no fruit but being moistned as Virgil saith it produceth winds also So our stomach is membranous and dry and except it be moderately moistned with meats and drinks it defrauds the body of its nourishment and it consumes If too much drink be taken there is fluctuation and wind for too much food oppresseth the natural heat and makes it weak but yet it will fall to work or concoct but being not able to do it exactly it raiseth vapours which it cannot discuss Then by degrees the first concoction being hindered there are gross and flegmatick humours both in the stomach and guts chiefly the Colon. If the wind be thick it stretcheth only the stomach and belly but when by degrees it is made thin by heat of the bowels that which was shut up begins to move and enlarge it self and take up more room and stir about to get forth and then all is well But if a costive body by hard excrements or tough flegm in the guts hinder its passage it runs back and roars rumbles and pains the guts and labours by force to get out For when the heat of the guts extenuates the vapours they move readily and of themselves and so are thinner and can pierce farther they run about like Thunder swiftly and open small passages and make solution of unity and cause pain in any solid part by their passage being thin What Seneca Lib. 6. nat quaest c. 8. saith of other wind agrees with this that its force is not to be withstood because a spirit is not to be conquered They only can judge of this wind who have been troubled with it Therefore as the other wind is only bred in the Earth so this is bred only in the stomach and guts as the caverns of the Earth and from thence goes to any part for the body is thin and previous full of passages for the wind to go through which when it is much and gets not forth shakes the body causeth chilness and great Symptoms after to be mentioned CHAP. V. Of the manner how Wind is bred in the Body WInd is bred from heat which is sometimes great sometimes weak and is raised from the matter after the same manner it is discussed For the strong heat of the bowels discusseth it before it get force and hinders it from breeding at the first Absolute cold raiseth no spirits as appears in extream crudities Therefore Hippocrates Lib. 6. saith that in a long Dysentery or Flux if there be sowre belchings it is good because before belching there was no sign of concoction by reason of the decay of natural heat which beginning to revive being but yet weak by reason of the small concoction it raised wind which was belched forth Therefore not great heat nor great cold but a mean between both makes wind according to Galen de sympt caus lib. 6. cap. 2. who saith it breeds in the vacuities of the stomach when flegm there contained or food is turned to vapours by weak heat For as absolute
boil them and to a pint add Electuary Ind. maj Hiera Logodii each four drams Honey of Roses two ounces Oyl of Bayes three ounces Electuary of Bayes two drams make a Clyster If they will not take Clysters give Pills of washed Aloes of Hiera aureae Cochic after preparation and abatement of pain But if pain be great and the matter small omit preparation and evacuation and fall upon that which most disturbeth therefore asswage pain speedily apply a small Cupping-glass without much flame twice or thrice to the shoulder then take Gith Cummin seed Pellitory and Parsley roots each half an ounce boil them in Wine to the consumption of half wash the teeth with it hot it will discuss and attenuate and amend the cold distemper and draw out much slimy matter which breeds wind Or boil Pellitory roots half an ounce white Pepper a dram in Vinegar and wash the mouth therewith or you may make a Bag and apply it to the Tooth thus Take Calamints Hysop Chamomil each a handful Milium parched Bran Salt each a pugil Cummin half an ounce make a Bag. Then put a red hot Iron into an earthen Jug and pour into it three or four spoonfuls of Vinegar and let the Bag take the Fume at the mouth of the Jug The Women hold it for a great Secret to apply a roasted Turnep behind the Ears for it revels strongly and abates pain to my knowledge I never allowed Narcoticks in this Disease for they thicken the wind too much and make it fix like a cloud upon the Nerves and roots of the Teeth and congealing makes a little ease but increaseth the Disease But if the pain be intolerable to refresh Nature you must use Narcoticks with hot things to abate their force and look both at the Symptom and cause Thus Take Pellitory Pepper each a scruple Opium half a scruple bind them in a Clout and infuse them two or three hours in Vinegar and apply it to the Tooth Or Take Henbane seed Stavesacre and Pellitory each a scruple and with Vinegar make a Pill hold it at the Tooth for an hour it abates pain wonderfully and doth no hurt yet I could wish that only Discussers might remove pain CHAP. XVII Of the Cure of a windy Pleurisie THe pain is great which is from wind in the side when it gets into the cavity of the Breast or between the Membranes that are under the Ribs for then as in a true Pleurisie there is a Cough restlesness and sometimes a Fever thirst and stretching pain which may be distinguished from a true Pleurisie by many signs yet Hippocrates for better security bids us soment with hot things and if the pain increase it is certainly from a defluxion and chiefly of hot matter if it abate it is from wind or a small defluxion which easily breaks forth when the skin is made thinner by the Fomentation It is not good to use Fomentations only but to give Clysters to make passage for the wind for in this disease the excrements are hard by idleness or driness when the moisture is gone to the veins or from much flegm that is gross which stops the passages therefore give a common Clyster first then a stronger to purget see the precedent Chapter If he will not take a Clyster give this Medicine Take Diacatholicon four drams Electuary of Dates two drams species Hierae s half a dram with Sugar make a Bole. Or give this Powder in Cock-broth or Wine Take Senna four scruples Rhubarb half a scruple Diagredium two grains Aromaticum rosatum eight grains Sugar a sufficient quantity After Evacuation open the Liver-vein on the side affected if there be much blood or great pain otherwise not then use Fomentations and the like to the part Take Calamints Pennyroyal Rosemary each one handful Rae Bayes each half a handful Juniper berries and Chamomil flowers each a pugil seeds of Foenugreek Line and Bran each three ounces Boil them to half then put the Liquour and Herbs in a Bladder and apply them or use a Cloth or a Sponge dipt in it do this often This concocts the thick and crude spirit extenuates and discusseth after this anoint with Oyl of Chamomil or bitter Almonds and apply a hot cloth Or make a Bag of Rue Thyme Wormwood Lavender Rosemary Chamomil Gith seed Cummin Carrot Bay-berries as in Chap. 16. When the wind is thus discussed it is good to apply a great Cupping-glass six fingers breadth below the part without Scarification but with a great flame twice or thrice this will discuss the wind easier it would not at first be discussed by a Cupping-glass If this will not do but the wind is bred still from clammy flegm prepare it thus by Inciders and Extenuaters Take roots of Orris Parsley Elicampane each an ounce bark of Dwarf-elder roots and of Tamarisk each four drams Sage Rosemary Hysop Roman Wormwood each half a handful Dodder a handful of the four great hot Seeds each two drams Raisons stoned a pugil Liquorish four drams boil them to half to a pint strained add Syrup of the five Roots two ounces of French Lavender Oxymel of Squills each an ounce and Sugar and a dram and half of Cinnamon make an Apozem for four draughts to be taken twice a day Then purge flegm thus Take Agarick four scruples Ginger half a dram infuse them in Fennel-water and white Wine twelve hours strain and add Benedicta laxativa three drams Electuary of the juyce of Roses half a dram Syrup of Calamints an ounce Or Take Turbith a dram Ginger half a dram Sugar two drams give it in powder with white Wine or Broth. Afterwards repeat the Fomentations Oyntments and Cupping-glasses and use Diacyminum or Electuary of Bay-berries or this Confection Take Conserve of Borage flowers candied Elicampane each half an ounce species of Diacyminum Dianisi Bay-berries each a scruple Cinnamon half a scruple with Syrup of Citron peels make an Electuary give a dram fasting in a decoction of Chamomil flowers and Aniseeds in white Wine It is good also to foment with Spirit of Wine and Oyl of bitter Almonds and apply a hot clout You must do the like in inflations of the Lungs CHAP. XVIII Of the Cure of a windy Palpitation A Palpitation is a Symptom of the Heart namely an elevation and depression of it preternaturally caused by wind and it is more dangerous then another palpitation because the part is most noble For if it be strong or last long it so weakens the vital faculty that it turns to fainting or sudden death Therefore presently strengthen the Heart with good Diet and Physick discuss wind and remove the cause Let the air be clear hot and dry not stinking or cloudy make it so by art if it be not naturally clear and sweet by sweet cordial things Let him abstain from strong passions of mind chiefly from sudden fear and shamefulness and from much Wine but moderate doth well and Venery and sleep in the day cold
or six ounces or according to strength Then prepare the matter with this Apozem against Melancholy and flegm Take Succory roots Elicampane Polypody each an ounce and half Germander Dodder Ceterach Hysap each a handful flowers of Elder Chamomil each a pugil Cappar barks and Tamarisk each six drams Liquorish half an ounce Anise four drams Raisons a pugil boil them to a pint and half strain and clarifie and add Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb Oxymel each two ounces Diatrionsantalon Cinnamon each a dram make an Apozem for four doses in the morning After this preparation purge thus Take Rhubarh and Agarick each a dram Senna two drams Ginger and Spike each half a seruple Cardamoms half a scruple infuse them in Chicken-broth twelve hours and strain and add Confectio Hamec Diaphoenicon each a dram Syrup of Roses solutive an ounce Or give this Powder Take Senna four scruples Rhubarb half a scruple Diagredium two grains Aromaticum rosatum eight grains Sugar two drams give it in Cock broth The next day give half an ounce of this Electuary and four ounces of Mead or Capon-broth after it or make it into Lozenges Take Dialacca a dram Confection of Bay-berries Diarrhodon each a scruple with Sugar dissolved in Borage water and Wine make Tablets of a dram weight give one in the morning at noon give Cock-broth made with Polypody and Borage flowers Rosemary Calamints or half an hour before dinner this Ptisan Take Barley four ounces Smallage Fennel Succory roots each three drams red Pease Pistacha's Currans each an ounce Hysop half a handful boil them to a pint and half strain it with six ounces of white Wine and add Cinnamon a dram and Sugar This is good also before supper Four days following prepare with the Apozem mentioned in a strong body give it twice a day and if there be a very soul body give every other night two or three of these Pills Take Pill aureae foetidae each half a dram Troches of Alhandal four grains with Oxymel make five Pills These do wonders in carrying of the prepared matter When the Syrups are spent purge with Confectio Hamec Pills of Agarick foetidae c. Also Montanus his Syrup Chap. 18. is excellent After the body is sufficiently purged correct the distemper of the bowels outwardly if the Liver be too hot foment the right side with Oyl of Roses two parts Oyl of Wormwood one part and a little Vinegar Or with Wormwood Plantane Waterlillies red Roses Sanders boiled in Oyl If the obstruction of the Spleen be the chief cause foment with this Take Dwarf-elder roots Madder each two ounces Calamints Pennyroyal Ceterach Bayes Chamomil flowers each half a handful Agnus castus seeds Bay-berries each an ounce Wormwood a handful Boil them in Forge-water and foment then anoint with Oyl of Capars and bitter Almonds Or this Liniment Take Ammoniacum Bdellium each two drams Galbanum half a dram dissolve them in Vinegar and with Oyl of Capars Dill and Goose grease each six drams make a Liniment And while these are done regard the stomach and wind there from the Chapter of the Inflation of the stomach Or thus Take Mints a handful Calamints Organ each half a handful Chamomil Rosemary Stoechas flowers each a pugil Wormwood half a handful Mastich a dram Cinnamon Cloves Wood Aloes Galangal red Coral each a scruple make a Quilt for the stomach sprinkle strong Wine on it and apply it hot Give every day a Lozenge prescribed with the Syrups to open and expel wind and Clysters that extenuate wind and open CHAP. XXI Of the Cure of the Colick I Shall speak by way of Presace First expect not any other Cure then that of wind alone or joyned with glassie flegm Secondly be careful lest it turn to a Joynt-gout as Hippocrates lib. 6. epid part 4. aphor 3. saith one that had the Colick had a Gout and then his pain of the Colick ceased but returned when the Gout ceased Thirdly bleeding is good if the disease be vehement and there be Plethory or Fever Fourthly beware of strong heaters chiefly before flegm is evacuated Fifthly let the chief means be Clysters Sixthly cupping doth little good but in season and in a fit body Therefore consider first whether the pain be from a flegmon in the Guts or Choler that corrodes the inward Membranes or glassie flegm or from wind that stretcheth If so then observe if the pain be vehement or moderate with or without a Plethora or fulness If there be much blood with great pain presently after a Clyster open a Vein lest great pain attract blood and cause an Inflammation or a Fever Then use strong Clysters of Hiera Indi major Hiera Logodii for no medicine can better purge flegm from the Guts For Galen lib 5 meth saith that nothing taken at the mouth can come with its full force to the Guts but a Clyster without trouble reacheth them therefore a Clyster is best for things taken at the mouth must needs be hot for the disease is cold and contraries are cured by contraries and must be given in great quantities at the mouth if they do good But all hot things being of thin parts easily pass through the Meseraicks and bring hot distemper to them and to the Liver and make the blood flow Also heat melts the clammy flegm and makes more wind and a good medicine abused becomes venom Therefore I advise Physitians to be wary in the use of Mithridate Treacle Diacalamints and other Heaters in Colicks before she glassie flegm fixed in the Guts be purged and then use them not often The best way is by Clysters first emollient to carry the common Excrements As Take Diacatholicon ten drams Hiera simple with Honey half an ounce Sugar an ounce Salt a dram and half dissolve them in a pint of the Decoction of Mallows and the five Emollients Chamomil flowers Bran and red Pease Then as Galen lib. 2. ad Glauc saith inject Oyl of Rue Bayes or common Oyl in which are boiled Heaters that extenuate as Cummin Smallage Parsley Aniseed Seseli Lovage Carrot seed Rue and Bay-berries adding Bitumen Or this which is stronger Take Calamints Pennyroyal and Tansey each a handful Chamomil flowers a pugil Cummin Carrot seed each three drams Bay-berries half a pugil In a pint of the Decoction strained mix Oxymel of Squills an ounce Oyl of Ruâ— three ounces Electuary Indiamajor six drams Hiera Logodii a dram make a Clyster If these do not cure repeat them or others according to the greatness of the disease plenty of flegm or wind or weakness of the patient remembring that still after the Clyster he lye on the side pained In the mean while give things moderately hot at the mouth as the Decoction of Chamomil flowers in white Wine or of Cummin which are excellent with an ounce or two of Oyl of sweet Almonds Lineseed or common Oyl Or give new Oyl of sweet Almonds warm three ounces Or Take Rhenish Wine four ounces Oyl of
Meth. med 12. confirms this saying that such diseases are in those that are stuffed with gross clammy food that is cold when the wind in the tunicles of the guts cannot get forth For the tunicles are double and the humour being between them is turned into wind it is gross and cold and of slow motion When it is detained it stretcheth the tunicles and the juyce whence it comes cools the guts it toucheth and they are doubly afflicted By these instances it is plain that wind by its coldness can make a similary disease that consists in distemper and also the solution of unity For there is pain and stretching of the tunicles which cannot be without laceration For there are two universal causes of pain one is an unequal distemper which comes suddenly and another when continuity is dissolved For parts dissolved by a humour or wind are pained by the separation Because if Hippocrates say cold is biting to Ulcers for no other cause but it contracts and condenseth and constringeth all parts it toucheth and so twitcheth the soft parts of the continuity and dissolves it Also if in acute fevers nervous bodies are most dried and therefore have Convulsion and if too much repletion that pulls it up and down and makes it shorter and so separates continuity how much more difficulty of solution of continuity will wind cause which for that only cause produce such strange Symptoms that require the whole care of a Physitian Thirdly it will appear by what follows that the whole Abdomen or Panch swells by wind as in a Tympany and the Liver and Spleen are wonderfully stopt thereby and hard as a Schirrhus and swollen as also the stomach and all these are instrumental diseases therefore organical diseases are also from wind Also Galen de diff morb saith when any part is swollen and so its passage stopt if that part hath no proper operation that stoppage is only called a disease but the tumour is not but only is the cause of obstruction But if the part affected hath any proper office then the obstruction and the tumour of the part are both diseases Therefore the three sorts of diseases distemper of simple parts and disorder of instrumental and solution of united parts are from wind CHAP. VIII Of the Causes of Wind. THere are few or none in the world but are troubled sometimes with winds for the stomach which is the Kitchin for the first concoction attracts the meat by the Gullet as by a long hand and embraceth and keepeth it and changeth it separating the pure from the impure casting the one into the guts but the Meseraick veins sucking the other carry it to the Liver When the stomach through weakness embraceth not the food attracted nor contains it it rumbles and tosseth about and then it cannot well concoct For it must be strong as Galen saith which consists in an excellent temper of the four qualities by which it turns the food into the proper quality of that which is nourished by help of the bowels about it the Heart Liver Spleen Reins Midriff which lye about the stomach as a great fire under a Caldron But sometimes a bad diet for none can be always punctual in the rules or some external force dissolves its strength or weakens the fire and then the virtue of the stomach abates and it alters according to the greatness or smalness of the cause Also outward cold as in cold Countries and in Northern winds piercing to the inward parts in thin and weak bodies offends the native heat Also too hot Air casts out disperseth the natural heat and takes it from the bowels and then concoction is hindered and wind bred But strong natural heat overcoming for the most part things comprehended by it extenuateth the meat more then that it can produce vapours except it be of its nature windy For the stomach though strong and force of Nature flourisheth and the heat not decayed is offended often by food that is proper to breed wind Therefore all Physick and food that is properly by its nature windy or by its coldness or multitude dissolves the strength of the stomach and oppresseth its natural heat is the cause of wind as Pulse raw Corn and Fruits All these Galen de alim fac lib. 2. saith and such as we eat before they are ripe are windy but they are soon digested therefore he argues thus in the beginning of that Book All the food mentioned in the first Book were the seeds of Plants little differing from fruits But all horary fruits are windy and all seeds more or less And boil Beans as much as you will they are windy some add Onions to prevent it because hot and attenuating things correct wind But fry them or any other pulse and they are not windy but very hard of concoction and pass away slowly and make gross juyce But any way dressed they swell the body He that will observe the distempers that follow every sort of food shall perceive a stretching of the whole body as by a wind after eating of Beans chiefly if he have not used to eat them formerly or eat up not well boiled Pease though like Beans are not so windy These are with us plentiful and usual and therefore we perceive less the hurt they do For what we eat freely and with pleasure the stomach embraceth closer and retains better and digests easier Fetches are windy also but few desire them it is good with any of these to boil Calamints Onions Dill or Pennyroyal Lentils puffe up the stomach and guts Also all Summer-fruits are like these for they are crude and full of excrements and unprofitable juyce especially when not ripe they are also flegmatick and windy Also if immoderately taken by their cold and moisture they abate the natural heat so that the stomach cannot discuss the wind it raiseth Mulberries and Plums are the worst of these chiefly green and after meat All sorts of Cherries chiefly the Spanish Cherries and Melones Pompions Cucumbers Gourds Apples Pears are alike but boiled they are less windy chiefly if eaten with seeds or hot and dry extenuaters or expellers of wind Anise or Coriander Figs saith Galen lib. de aliment nourish more then other autumnal fruits but are windy but the wind soon vanisheth because they are laxative Chesnuts eaten plentifully cause Headach swell the belly bind it and are hard of concoction Also Roots Turneps Radishes and the like are windy and Corn Milium Wheat chiefly boiled Barley but Rapes and Radishes are most windy All Fish are the like flegmatick and windy chiefly the great and the less that are slimy as the Eel and Salmon Lamprey Tench chiefly if boiled broiled or fryed they are not so windy chiefly if the flesh be soft as the Brook-fish Though Celsus lib. 2. c. 26. saith they are not windy All Pulse and fat meats do swell with wind and sweet things and Broths new Wine Also Garlick Coleworts Onions and all Roots except a