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

  • Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800
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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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    ♦ 4 faculty to the formation of the finest children; correcting and purifying the male seed from infection or disease ; preventing moles or false conception ; removing all loathings, longings, or vomiting, and effectually preventing abortion, from any cause whatever.—For these important purposes, when a woman enters into the state of matrimony, she would do well to take twenty drops of the LUNAR TINCTURE every other morning to promote conception; she should then continue it three times a week, from conception to the end of the fourth month ; then it should be omitted till a fortnight before her time, when she should take 20 drops in a wine-glass of cold spring water every morning till her labour, at which time it will wonderfully strengthen her, assist her throes, facilitate the birth, promote the lochia, and carry otf the after-pains. She might take it occasionally during the month in any symptoms of cold, fever, or hysterics, diluted in a wine-glass of warm water, about the middle of the day. Women who are subject to miscarriages should never fail to take this medicine, from the time they have reason to believe they are pregnant until a full month after they have quickened. It may be taken once, twice, or thrice a-day, or every other day, as the urgency of the case may require, from twenty to thirty drops in a glass of forge water ; or in soft spring water in which common oak bark has been steeped; and she will effectually get over all causes of abortion. Women, after sudden miscarriages, or bad labours, will find wonderful relief by taking twenty drops of it once a-day in a wine glass of warm water, for a week or ten days. Nurses, also, whose milk is griping or defective, should take it once or twice-a day, or as often as occasion might require. The intention will quickly be experienced, the milk will be purified and augmented, and all the fluid secretions promoted in a manner productive of sound health, both to the mother and child. FOR WOMEN AT THE TURN OF LIFE. f The most critical and dangerous time of a woman’s life is that wherein the menses cease to flow, which usually happens between forty and fifty years of age. The great change that this produces, by so copious a drain being taken into the habit without previous preparation, is the sole cause of its danger. Every woman must be sensible when this period arrives, and should conduct herself accordingly : for when the menses are about to go off, they appear for the most part irregularly, both in time and quantity, once in a fortnight, three, five, or six weeks: sometimes very sparingly, and other times in immoderate quantities. For want only of necessary care and attention, during the time that the menses thus dodge, and give symptoms of their departure, many and various are the complaints that ensue ; amongst which are cold chills, succeeded by violent flushings of the face and heats of the extremities; restless nights, troublesome dreams, and unequal* spirits; inflammations of the bowels; spasmodic affections ; stiffness in the limbs, swelled ancles, sore legs, with pains and inflammation; the piles, and other symptoms of plenitude. But all this might easily be prevented by attending to a due regimen, and taking these Tinctures, as occasion may require. When a woman has reason to suspect her menses are about to leave her, let her lose four, five, or six ouuces of blood, as the habit of body will admit; then let her take my Cooling and Opening Powders, sold at Two Shillings and Sixpence a packet. Let her take from 60 to 80 drops of the LUNAR TINCTURE in a gill glass full of water, every night and morning for ten days; then let her continue it every morning for ten days more, and afterwards once every two or three days, or oftener, if the terms are of an ill colour and scent, until they are corrected. This must be followed every spring and fall, for a month or six weeks successively, by all women who find their menses dodge, or come too sparingly, until they entirely