===== MIDDLE UPPER REGION ===== ==== Lungs ==== * Obstructed by some crass phlegmatic matter adhering to the sides of the Pipes, from whence follows * Too frequent Respiration. * SHORTNESS OF BREATH, Anhelatio, Panting, Pursiness. * Difficulty of Breathing, according to ‖ a lesser, or greater degree: by the latter of which men cannot fetch their breath, unless in an upright posture. * ASTHMA, Tissick, broken-winded, wheeze. * ORTHOPNOEA. * Vlcerated, and by degrees putrefying; from whence sometimes doth proceed much purulent matter to fill up the cavity of the Thorax. * CONSUMPTION, Phthisis. * EMPYEMA. ==== heart ==== Heart; by some noxious vapours or humours, which do either * Provoke to too frequent and vehement motion for the freeing it self from them. * PALPITATION. * Hinder the motion of it; according to ‖ a lesser: or greater degree. * FAINTING, Failing, languish, Qualm. * SWOUNING, Swound, Leipothymia. ==== side ==== Side; from some Inflammation within the Membranes covering the in∣side of the Ribs, causing difficulty of breathing, and provocation to coughing, upon which great pain follows, accompanied with a Fever. * PLEURISIE. ===== MIDDLE LOWER REGION ===== Diseases belonging to the LOWER BELLY or Bowels, may be distinguished into such as do concern the ==== Stomach ==== * Stomach; by sharp humors corroding the mouth of it, causing sometimes Fainting and cold Sweats. * CARDIALGIA, Heart-burning. ==== Liver and gall ==== Liver and Gall; being caused by some impotence in them for the doing of their Functions, in not digesting & distributing the humors belong∣ing to them; causing either ‖ Paleness of colour, Faintness, Indisposition to stir: or Yellowness and Swarthiness of colour, accompanied with faintness and nauseousness. * GREEN-SICKNESS, Cachexie. * JAUNDISE, Yellow-jaundise, Black-jaundise. ==== Stomach and liver ==== Stomach and Liver, and other Bowels jointly; which, being defective in the works of Concoction and Distribution, do occasion a superfluity of serous matter distending the skin of the belly and other parts of the body, accompanied with some wind: and sometimes a windy vapour, accompanied with some watery humors, stretching the belly. * DROPSY, hydropical. * TYMPANY. ==== Spleen ==== Spleen; by its dispersing sour and feculent humors: or noxious vapors, into other parts of the body; the former of which is usually accompanied with faintness, weariness, loosness of teeth, spots on the body, and spe∣cially on the legs. * SCURVY, Scorbute. * HYPOCHONDRIACAL VAPOURS, Spleneti•. ==== Guts ==== Guts; ‖ from some sharp humor that corrodes, or vapor that distends the Co∣lon: or from some hardned excrement, or some other like matter, stopping the Ilia or smaller Guts. * COLIC, Belly-ach. * ILIAC PASSION. ==== Faculties of excretion ==== * Stool; either as to the excess of this: or the voiding of bloud. * DIARRHAEA, Lax, Looseness, Flux. * DISENTERY, Bloody-flix. * Vrine; either by some stony concretion in the Kidneys or Bladder: or a continual involuntary urining by drops. * STONE. * STRANGURY. ==== Lower part of belly or scrotum ==== Lower part of the belly or Scrotum; ‖ by a breach of the internal Mem∣branes, or too much distention of it, or by superfluity of waterish or windy matter: or in the Veins about the Fundament. * RUPTURE, Hernia, Burst, Broken-belly. * HAEMORROIDS, Piles. ==== Mother or womb ==== Mother or Womb; by ‖ causing convulsive motions: or stopping of the Breath. * HYSTERICAL PASSION, Mother. * SUFFOCATION.