eart, and that
_cardiaca passio_, grief in the mouth of the stomach, which maketh the
patient think his heart itself acheth, and sometimes suffocation,
_difficultas anhelitus_, short breath, hard wind, strong pulse, swooning.
Montanus _consil. 55._ Trincavelius _lib. 3. consil. 36. et 37._ Fernelius
_cons. 43._ Frambesarius _consult. lib. 1. consil. 17._ Hildesheim,
Claudinus, &c., give instance of every particular. The peculiar symptoms
which properly belong to each part be these. If it proceed from the
stomach, saith [2639]Savanarola, 'tis full of pain wind. Guianerius adds,
vertigo, nausea, much spitting, &c. If from the mirach, a swelling and wind
in the hypochondries, a loathing, and appetite to vomit, pulling upward. If
from the heart, aching and trembling of it, much heaviness. If from the
liver, there is usually a pain in the right hypochondry. If from the
spleen, hardness and grief in the left hypochondry, a rumbling, much
appetite and small digestion, Avicenna. If from the mesaraic veins and
liver on the other side, little or no appetite, Herc. de Saxonia. If from
the hypochondries, a rumbling inflation, concoction is hindered, often
belching, &c. And from these crudities, windy vapours ascend up to the
brain which trouble the imagination, and cause fear, sorrow, dullness,
heaviness, many terrible conceits and chimeras, as Lemnius well observes,
_l. 1. c. 16._ "as [2640]a black and thick cloud covers the sun, and
intercepts his beams and light, so doth this melancholy vapour obnubilate
the mind, enforce it to many absurd thoughts and imaginations," and compel
good, wise, honest, discreet men (arising to the brain from the [2641]
lower parts, "as smoke out of a chimney") to dote, speak, and do that which
becomes them not, their persons, callings, wisdoms. One by reason of those
ascending vapours and gripings, rumbling beneath, will not be persuaded but
that he hath a serpent in his guts, a viper, another frogs. Trallianus
relates a story of a woman, that imagined she had swallowed an eel, or a
serpent, and Felix Platerus, _observat. lib. 1._ hath a most memorable
example of a countryman of his, that by chance, falling into a pit where
frogs and frogs' spawn was, and a little of that water swallowed, began to
suspect that he had likewise swallowed frogs' spawn, and with that conceit
and fear, his phantasy wrought so far, that he verily thought he had young
live frogs in his belly, _qui vivebant ex alimento suo_, th