Historical label: “Pain in the Bowels” in the 1850 edition’s “A List of the Principal Diseases”.
Modern literature has not yet been searched for this heading’s claims: it comes only from the 1850 index and has no search words yet.
A note on the heading
Plain sense
Pain in the belly: “torments”, “tortures”, “griping pains”. Mallows’ pain comes of hot humours; Mouse-ear names the stone’s pains and then “other tortures and griping pains of the bowels” besides, so the heading is the symptom, not one cause.
What the entries treat
Two claims. Mallows “not only voids hot, choleric, and other offensive humours, but eases the pains and torments of the belly coming thereby”; Mouse-ear “is a special remedy against the stone, and the tormenting pains thereof: as also other tortures and griping pains of the bowels”. The index’s two sub-lines, in the Side and in the Stomach, are CND-0102 and CND-0103; most of Culpeper’s bowel-pain sentences sit under Bowels (obstructions of), CND-0019.
Today’s words
abdominal pain; stomach ache; colic; intestinal cramps — the modern term names the same thing.
How it reads today
Reads as it did. “Griping” is the cramping, twisting kind of belly pain; medicine calls the whole field abdominal pain and sorts it by cause. The word bowel is under CND-0019.
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2 claims: 2 with a sentence, 0 from the index alone