Essay on the virtues and efficacy of Dr. Sibly's lunar tincture, in all diseases peculiar to the female sex / [E. Sibly].

  • Ebenezer Sibly
Date:
between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Essay on the virtues and efficacy of Dr. Sibly's lunar tincture, in all diseases peculiar to the female sex / [E. Sibly]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which must he persisted in morning, noon, and night, for ten days; then take it twice a-day, morning and evening, for ten days more; after which dis¬ continue the decoction, and take the Tincture every morning for a month, 60 drops in a wine-glass of cold spring water. The disease will be found gradually to abate ; and upon any symptoms of a return of it, take 60 to 80 drops of the Tincture in a wine-glass of cold water every morning for a week, and it will go entirely off. FOR WEAKNESSES CONTRACTED BEFORE MARRIAGE, BARRENNESS, &c. There are some disorders contracted by the fair sex, the cause and cure of which are of such a nature, that, for several reasons, chiefly through shame, they are likely to conceal them, and therefore may suffer worse consequences than can here be described. To tell, in a few words, what I mean by such diseases, they are all such as the patient, by a criminal indulgence of her passions, has herself been instrumental in causing, For that many of the fair, especially in their younger years, have suffered much from a secret vice, by which they have endeavoured to procure themselves those pleasurable sensations which God has ordered to be the effects of a mutual commerce between the sexes, is a matter of late becoming too notorious to be doubted, and too dreadful in its consequences to be indulged in; 1 mean that abominable vice Onanism, or secret venery. And certainly none of them can take it amiss, if, for their advantage, I venture so far to expose this practice, as to remove the evil consequences of it, and to prevent, as much as possible, its con¬ tinuance. The secret vice before-mentioned is chiefly a fault of both sexes; nothing, therefore, can be of more importance to the preservation of human kind in general than the endeavouring to prevent a practice that strikes at the very root of fecundity, and is particularly destructive to young men as well as women, as I have amply shewn in ray Medical Mirror; but, besides its wickedness, it is the most prejudicial thing that can be to the human con¬ stitution. Its bad effects on the body are many and great. If practised often, it relaxes and spoils the retentive faculty. It occasions the whites in women, and gleets in men. It ruins the complexion, and makes them pale, swarthy, and haggard. It produces a long train of hysteric disorders ; and sometimes, by draining away the radical moisture, induces consumptions. It brings on heat in the privities, belly, thighs, with shooting pains in the head, and all over the body. It sometimes brings on that fatal malady, afuror uterinus, or, insatiable appetite to venery, the dreadful consequences of which are also depicted in the before-mentioned Medical Mirror. But what it is most liable to produce is barrenness, by causing an indifference to the pleasures of Venus, and, in time, a total inability or inaptitude to the act of generation itself. Virgins who indulge themselves over-eagerly in this abuse of their bodies, deflower themselves, and destroy the valuable badge of their chastity, which it is expected they should not part with before marriage, but which, when lost, can never be retrieved. With regard to maids, who have hereby de¬ prived themselves of that sacred badge, the loss of which before marriage was so severely punished among the Jews, under what apprehensions must they continually lie !—with what terrors must they approach the marriage bed, which heaven has designed for the seat of the highest sensible enjoyments, when they reflect that their virtue, on the first amorous encounter, is liable to such suspicions as may never be worn off, but which may render uncom¬ fortable the whole life, both of her and her otherwise affectionate husband ! What I have already said, if duly attended to, will be sufficient to render this practice detestable ; to deter the young, and hitherto innocent, from making themselves miserable, and to stop the course of those who have already
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