3. The retentive faculty of the stomach is corrected by binding medicines, yet not by all binding medicines neither, for some of them are adverse to the stomach, but by such binding medicines as are appropriated to the stomach.
For the use of these.
Use 1. Use not such medicines as provoke appetite before you have cleansed the stomach of what hinders it.
Use 2. Such medicines as help digestion, give them a good time before meat that so they may pass to the bottom of the stomach, (for the digestive faculty lies there,) before the food come into it.
Use 3. Such as strengthen the retentive faculty, give them a little before meat, if to stay fluxes, a little after meat, if to stay vomiting.
CHAPTER V.
Of Medicines appropriated to the liver.
Be pleased to take these under the name of Hepatics, for that is the usual name physicians give them, and these also are of three sorts.
- 1. Some the liver is delighted in.
- 2. Others strengthen it.
- 3. Others help its vices.
The palate is the seat of taste, and its office is to judge what food is agreeable to the stomach, and what not, by that is both the quality and quantity of food for the stomach discerned: the very same office the meseraik veins perform to the liver.