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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46872	A brief discourse of the stomach and parts subservient unto it of the generating of blood and humors, their degenerating into diseases, how and by what means they are wrought up in the body. Set forth in a dialogue between a physician and a countrey-man his patie made so plain and easie, that any one may know so much of his own strength and constitution, as to judge of his state of health, and tendency to sickness, and be able to help himself therein, in order to which, is subjoyned an account of that incompatable extractum pareton, or, extract of universal vertue and sufficiency, in the cure of most, but especially chronical diseases, incident to men and women. Prepared by the art and industry of Edward Jewel.	Jewel, Edward.	1678 (1678)	Wing J732B; ESTC R216573	7,929	11

Brief Discourse OF THE STOMACH And PARTS Subservient unto it OF THE Generating of Blood and Humors their degen●rating into Diseases how and by what means they are wrought up in the Body Set forth in a DIALOGUE between a Physician and a Countrey-man his Patie●● Made so Plain and Easie that any one may know so much of his own Strength and Constitution as to Judge of his State of Health and Tendency to Sickness and be able to help Himself therein In Order to which Is Subjoyned AN ACCOUNT of that Incomparable EXTRACTVM PA●ARETON Or Extract of Vniversal Vertue and Sufficiency in the Cure of Most but especially Chronical Diseases incident to Men and Women Prepared by the Art and Industry of EDWARD JEWEL● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hippocrat Aph. lib. 2.25 LONDON Printed in the YEAR 167● A Brief DISCOVRSE of the Stomach c. Patient HAving been often invited to Town by some Business I am now the rather Perswaded thereto by an earnest desire I have had to discourse with you about your Writings and Pills which you have Placed among us in the Countrey as well as in this City Physitian What hath directed your Curiosity to me alone since from this Town the Country is abundantly furnished with many sorts of Pills Powders Drinks Spirits c. Which promise you wonders far above what I have given you to expect from my Pills which notwithstanding may not be inferiour to any Medicine this day Extant Patient Sir It is not from any mis-apprehension I have of your Pills for I am well satisfied of their Vertues having known many in our Parts who have taken them with great success and satisfaction none complaining of any Violence Griping or any other ill Effects which are commonly found in most Purging Medicines But that which hath brought me to you is a desire to be better satisfied in the Nature and Differences of some Diseases which are frequent amongst us which though you in your Writings have described very fully and authentically yet not without some Obscurity and Termes of Art which though they might rather recommend you to the more Learned to me and others of my meaner capacity would be much more acceptable and profitable were they made more plain and familiar Physitian I should willingly comply with your desires herein but then I perceive that I must treat you rather as a Pupil then a Patient in that you seem to require of me a History of Diseases which would ask larger Discourses and more time then this opportunity will afford But in regard that you have applied your self to my advice before that of others I shall take care that you go not from me unsatisfied in what so neerly concerns you And therefore shall lay you down a Method whereby you or any other Person may apprehend and understand the Original of Diseases in General and be able to reduce them practically to every ones particular Case as occasion offers And these shall be drawn from some easie notions in Anatomy by which I shall give you a Prospect though drawn in little of the principal parts of the Body which are design'd by Nature for the nourishment and support thereof and their subserviency each to other in order thereunto And then shew you how from an accidental deficiency in their Functions all diseases are caused And afterward inform you of the differencing signs of those in which you are at a loss Patient Sir This will more fully Answer my desires and moreover oblige me and many others who wanting means to apply themselves to a Physician know not how to beware the approaches of sickness nor how to behave themselves in it Physitian You are to consider that the substance of our Bodies suffering a daily decay and wasting as well by our own innate or inbred heat perspiration of the purer parts of the Humours through the pores of the Skin the impressions of the Ambient Air as by the common Evacuations of Nature so there is required a daily supply of Nourishment to repair and make good whatsoever is spent of that store which is provided to support and preserve it in its perfection To this end our All-wise Creator hath prepared and fitted the Members and Organs of the Body in their several places and offices to be assistant to each other in order to the effecting this admirable work The Stomach is the first principal Agent of these which as it were a Kitchen serves to dress prepare all Meats and Drinks though of different substance which are brought into it and by its concocting faculty reduceth them into a white Milky substance which is called Chyle Which passing through the lower * Py●oru●● Orifice of the Stomach into the Intrail where having but a slow passage by reason of the many turnings and windings by which they are united to the Mesentery and receiving there another kind of concoction it is again altered and the purer part thereof by the Miseraick Veins call'd The Hands of the Liver through the Vein call'd vena porta from that Office carried into the hollow part of the Liver where by a higher and more Eleborate Concoction it is turned into that admirable Balsamick liquor call'd Blood Which from thence passeth into the hollow Vein whose trunck divides it self into two great Branches the one tending downwards to carry Blood to the lower parts Vena Ca●… the other upwards and mounteth even to the Throat dividing again by the way into other Branches one of which asteneth it self to the right ventricle of the heart by which the Blood is brought thither from the Liver where being yet higher Elaborate and Enriched it is transmitted or conveyed over to the left vintricle where the Arteries take their Original which contain the Vital Blood and Spirits which do enliven and exercise the faculties of the Body by other Branches it ariseth into the Brain where the Animal Spirits are made which also is the Seat of the Reason Memory Judgment and Phansie as also of all sense and motion here these faculties of the soul by the said Spirit are exercised in the Brain also are all the Nerves or Sinews implanted and derived into all the parts which cause a voluntary motion of the Body by which it walks stands up lies down or causeth any other exercise according to the dictate of the will which could not be done without the Nerves Having now shewed you how the meat is turned into Chyle the Chyle is turned into Blood how that it is from the Liver as from a Fountain sent through the Veins like Channels or Pipes to the principal parts and from thence by infinite smaller Veins into every part of the Body and by their several faculties assimilated or made like to their own form as into Flesh Nerves Bones Membrans c. In order to the making up and preserving the whole Frame of the Body it remains now that I shew you what use I design to make of this discourse to

your profit And that is to make it appear to you that as the Actions of the Body are design'd and contrived by Nature for the support of the whole Fabrick thereof so from these Actions being hurt or hindred is the Original of all Diseases And therefore a disease is defin'd by Galen to be * 〈…〉 5. l. 1. 〈◊〉 Turn An Affect contrary to Nature by which the Action of the Body be hurt The Actions are hurt when the parts are disabled to perform their several Offices and Functions as when the stomach cannot concoct the Food when the Liver can no longer turn the Chyle into blood nor the parts attract and assimilate it Now this hurt is done for the most part by what is taken into the body that is our Meat and Drink● which if either it be unwholesom or taken in too great quantity it both ways offend the body for unwholesom Meats and Drinks give an unwholesom nourishment all sorts thereof giving nourishment consentaneous to their qualities if the error be in quantity the consequence is still worse for Excess in eating and drinking lays the foundation of all diseases 〈◊〉 1. 〈◊〉 de morb for neither the Air Season of the year troubles of Mind nor immoderate exercise or the like Causes can have their effects upon us to beget diseases unless the body be predisposed by ill humors Now this predisposition and preparation of ill humors is only the result of Indigestion and caused from the Faculty of the Stomach abused and perverted For when the Stomach is overcharged it cannot rightly concoct and turn the food into Chyle nor being able to contain it long thrusteth it crude a● it is into the Entralls which also being oppressed cannot so speedily convey through them the indigested load but it receiveth there an imperfect alteration and so is by the craving veins of the Mesentery drawn a way and carried into the Liver which also being indisposed by receiving this crude and unprepared matter is unable to convert the unequal Mass into good blood but throws it into the larger veins mixed and infected with evil humors and from thence to the Heart the Seat of Life which like a Lamp almost drown'd with Oyl is even stifled and overcom thus also it is carried to the Brain the Fountain of Sense and Motion which b●ing clouded with vapours and filled with superfluous humors its faculties are interrupted From the larger Vessels it is through infinite small ones carried all over the body every part taking its share which by reason of its want of d●e concoction in the principal parts is much less prepared to give nourishment to the parts remote by these means often repeated the body is made a Magazine or Storehouse of corrupt humors with which the most destructive and deadly diseases are apt and ready upon all occasions to invade the body If any thing herein seem difficult to your understanding I will explain it by an Example to wit of the Scurvey a disease which is the general Complaint of the Nation it is a malignant and infectious habit of the parts ordain'd for nourishment impressed upon them by the frequent impulse of vitious humors which being fermented and diffused all over the body deprave the faculties and functions of the parts This is caused for the most part by gross season'd salted or dried Meats or others of heavy and hard digestion and these generally taken to excess as also disagreeable or unwholesom drinks an errour chargeable upon most persons I speak not here of Gluttony and Drunkenness Natura pa●● con●… but that only which exceeds the Request of Nature which is content with a little but too often betrayed and debauched by Appetite I say these Meats and Drinks so liberally taken and not well concocted by the Stomach pass into the Entralls with many raw and excrementitious humors which from thence are carried into the Liver and Spleen and by that gradual proceeding before men●ioned into all the several parts of the Body and this work being not duely performed they are filled and oppressed with thick gross humors unapt for Nourishment which being put upon fermentation which is a working up like Beer in a Barrel they are thereby made thin and contract a fumous piercing sharpness which separates and throws it self all over the Body the thinner part fastning upon the Gums causeth them to swell makes them loose change colour subject to bleed and by degrees putrifie give an ill savour to the Mouth and breath and at last waste and consume Other parts of the humour seize the Membranes Nerves and Tendons which makes the Body sluggish listless heavy stiff and universally indisposed further they diffuse themselves upon the habit or outside of the body from whence arise red purple or blewish spots upon the skin which change colour fade and vanish but the disease continuing others succeed them These are the true signes of the Scurvey it hath many other Symptoms but they are common with other diseases and very often this joyns it self to other diseases which were it not for the aforesaid Sign were not to be distinguished from it Such are Giddiness Dulness and Pain in the Head unquiet sleeps and starting streight and difficult breathing Melancholy Sighing Pain in the Stomach Windiness Belching want of Appetite weak and slow digestion Pain in the Back and Sides with heaviness and stretching out especially of the left side sometimes Costiveness other-whiles sudden Loosness of the belly the Vrine is thick and gross sharp Pains and Aches in the Limbs and often in the Joints and may not unaptly be call'd A Scorbutick Gout when the morbous Ferment is heightned the Blood more tainted and humours putrified the Symptoms are exasperated and the disease exerciseth greater cruelties upon the body and throws its malignity into all parts thereof so that it swells all over becomes pale and wan weak and the flesh loose and often turns to a Dropsey the Pains are more sharp and with the spots arise Pustules and virulent Vlcers which corrode the Flesh even to the bones In a word as the Disease grows stronger and the humors more corrupt so the Symptomes are proportionably aggravated and happy is that Person who is so prudent to put a timely stop to the growth of this Fatal Disease Thus also is the Dropsy caused by the hurt and depravation of the Actions and Faculties of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery For the Liver sending out a thin watery Blood causeth all the Flesh to swell as if it were par-boiled and this is call'd the Dropsy Anasarca Then by default in the Stomach Liver and Spleen there is a continual gathering of Serous or a watery Matter in the Belly which swells up to a vast Bulk and this is the Dropsy Ascites and ●rom the like cause the Tympany From the same also are caused a Cachexie Di● 〈…〉 or ill habit of Body and this mostly affl●cts women who are deprived of their Monthly Sickness