De ventriculi natura, et affectibus

32. If an abundance of watery humor is added, being either contained in the cavity of the stomach or impacted in its tunics, much saliva rising into the mouth causes frequent spitting; distensions of gas also inflict pain.
33. A dry stomach is refreshed by moist food and drink, and is ill-affected by drier things; no erosion, heaviness, nausea, or vomiting is felt.
34. Composite intemperies—hot and moist, hot and dry, cold and moist, cold and dry—possess the mixed signs of the intemperies of which they are composed; because these are easily understood from what has preceded, for the sake of avoiding hateful prolixity, we omit them for the present.
35. As pertains to the causes of intemperies, it must be known that some are innate to man, others are subsequently acquired.
36. Innate ones, especially those which are devoid of humor, draw their origin from the seed and blood of the parents.
37. Those, however, which are not received from the parents, but are subsequently acquired, must be attributed both to other evident causes and to long-standing errors in living, especially in food and drink, committed over a long period.
38. Often also, depraved humors flowing into the stomach from other parts of the body, such as from the spleen, liver, or brain, communicate their qualities to it.
39. Descending directly to practice, we judge that in every species of intemperies, whether it partakes of humor or is devoid of it, this must be generally observed: that one should abstain from all things, especially foods, drinks, and medicines, which can increase or foster the intemperies or the humor joined to it.
40. Thus, for example, one laboring under a hot intemperies of the stomach, whether with or without humor, must abstain from all things notably hot and those that easily procreate bile.
41. Let the same judgment apply to all other intemperies, which it would be superfluous to repeat here.
42. As for Pharmacy: a hot intemperies without humor requires to be cured by cold remedies; a cold one by hot; a moist by dry; and a dry by moist remedies.
43. Care must be taken, however, lest we so alter a hot intemperies as to extinguish at the same time the native heat of the stomach. Wherefore we shall strive to effect this gradually rather than all at once.
44. In a cold intemperies, one must also beware of too frequent and immoderate