stomachic

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The stomachic causes which, as time went on, produced melancholy and dense, black depression in me, probably accounted for his eruptions of violent irascibility.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

Usually it is in the upper left quadrant and seems to be stomachic in origin.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

A strengthing stomachic Plaister has sometimes been successfully applied, which may be often moistened in a Decoction of Herbs boiled in Wine.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Calumba, ka-lum′ba, n. the root of an East African plant, extensively used in medicine as a stomachic and tonic.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It was reserved to Simps alone to miss the shining mark by reason of stomachic distortion.

From The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46 by Spear, Ellis