Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by W. J. Leney, 1794 (?) after Pale.

Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings.

Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after D. Dodd.

Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from five months to nine months gestation. Colour engraving, by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

A new and complete illustration of the celestial science of astrology ... / [E. Sibly].

A young man holding his hand to his heart, emanating insensible perspiration. Colour stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after E. Sibly.

The medical mirror; or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / [E. Sibly].

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By His Majesty's royal letters patent, is particularly recommended, Dr. Sibly's re-animating solar tincture; or, pabulum of life.

"Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the solution. [...] Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."--From jacket.

Oxford studies in Western esotericism

xx, 340 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

The Siblys of London : a family on the esoteric fringes of Georgian England / Susan Mitchell Sommers.

The British Museum catalogue suggests that the establishment depicted might be that of J.B. de Mainauduc. Mary R. McCarl, Gloucester, Mass., has suggested (verbally to the Wellcome Library, 5 July 2002) that the man in the right background might be Ebenezer Sibly, comparing the engraved portrait of him, 1807, after Dodd

"This first visible state of conception, which resembles the lucid appearance of a drop of water, tending to coagulation, is correcly shewn in the first figure of the annexed plate, precisely in the state it was extracted from the uterus of a female, who died on the sixth day after contact with the male, and is now to be seen, preserved in spirits, in Rackstrow's valuable Museum, in Fleet-street, London."--Sibly, op. cit., p. 56

1 print : engraving, printed in sanguine ; platemark 18.7 x 12.6 cm

Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

2 parts : frontispiece (portrait), plates ; (4to)

Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / By E. Sibly.

2 volumes in 1 : plates (some color), frontispiece (portrait) ; (4to)

English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... forming a complete family dispensatory. Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / ... By E. Sibly.

Medical Heritage Library

2 unnumbered pages, 256 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates

Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic, beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants and a set of anatomical figures, also an astronomical illustration of the celestial influx on the human frame / by E. Sibly, Fellow of the Harmonic Philosophical Society at Paris; and author of the Complete illustration of the occult sciences. [Pt.2], The medical part.

The medical mirror. Or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / By E. Sibly.

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Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800

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Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after D. Dodd.

Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by W. J. Leney, 1794 (?) after Pale.

By His Majesty's royal letters patent, is particularly recommended, Dr. Sibly's re-animating solar tincture; or, pabulum of life.

The Siblys of London : a family on the esoteric fringes of Georgian England / Susan Mitchell Sommers.

Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings.

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Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800

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Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after D. Dodd.

Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by W. J. Leney, 1794 (?) after Pale.

By His Majesty's royal letters patent, is particularly recommended, Dr. Sibly's re-animating solar tincture; or, pabulum of life.

The Siblys of London : a family on the esoteric fringes of Georgian England / Susan Mitchell Sommers.

Patients undergoing magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, 1790, after J. Collings.

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