Book 4
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12 Below the throat is placed the stomach, in which there tend to occur many chronic complaints. For sometimes great heat affects it, sometimes flatulence, sometimes inflammation, sometimes ulceration; at times phlegm collects, at times bile; but the most frequent malady is that in which it undergoes paralysis, nor does anything else so affect it, or, through it, the whole body. As diverse as are its complaints, so are the remedies.
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When heated, it should be bathed externally at intervals with vinegar and rose oil, and road dust applied with oil, and those plasters which simultaneously repress and soothe. For drink, unless there is anything against it, lukewarm water is the best.
