De ventriculi natura, et affectibus

...moderate use of very hot things. In this, women and other unskilled persons are often prone to err. For by their excessive use, the substance of innate heat is dissipated, and thus, by accident, the stomach is rendered colder than before.

45. Another caution must be applied in every intemperies devoid of humor: that astringents should always be mixed with alteratives, in order to increase and preserve the strength of the part.

46. When some humor is joined together with an intemperies, it must first be seen whether it was generated in the stomach or has flowed into it from elsewhere.

47. If it has flowed from elsewhere and that flux still persists, remedies must be applied first to the sending part, and then to the stomach.

48. But if the humor was either generated in the stomach or its inflow from any other part of the body has entirely ceased: if the humor tends upward, it should be purged by vomiting; but if downward, by a medicine for purging the bowels, suited to the nature of the offending humor.

49. When, after vomiting, a thicker and more viscous portion of the humor adheres to the floor of the stomach, or a thinner one, which had been absorbed by its tunics, still remains, it must be dislodged and thoroughly rooted out by a suitable cathartic, having first administered (if the thickness and viscosity of the humor seem to require it) attenuants, incisives, and detergents.

50. Once the humor has been evacuated, we shall endeavor to gradually remove the remaining intemperies with alteratives mixed with astringents, as was said above, and to increase the strength of the stomach by all means, lest it easily be susceptible to a new disease.

51. This last point must be added: when the mouth of the stomach is affected, a certain special care must be taken of it, nor should it be vexed by the use of vehemently sharp, acid, or harsh things, because of the association it has with all the principal parts, and the remarkable sharpness of sensation which the nerves directed into it from the sixth conjugation bestow upon it. Whence it is sometimes affected by such atrocious pains that they must be mitigated by anodynes or narcotics, lest they eventually bring about a dissolution of strength and a syncope threatening the patient with death.