A key to physic, and the occult sciences. Opening to mental view, the system and order of the interior and exterior heavens; the analogy betwixt angels and the spirits of men; and the sympathy between celestial and terrestrial bodies ... To which are added, lunar tables, calculated from sidereal motion; exhibiting, upon the most simple yet unerring construction, the actual moment of the crisis of every disease, and the consequent termination thereof, whether for life or death. The whole forming an interesting supplement to Culpeper's family physician, and display of the occult sciences ... / By E. Sibly.

  • Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A key to physic, and the occult sciences. Opening to mental view, the system and order of the interior and exterior heavens; the analogy betwixt angels and the spirits of men; and the sympathy between celestial and terrestrial bodies ... To which are added, lunar tables, calculated from sidereal motion; exhibiting, upon the most simple yet unerring construction, the actual moment of the crisis of every disease, and the consequent termination thereof, whether for life or death. The whole forming an interesting supplement to Culpeper's family physician, and display of the occult sciences ... / By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX TO THE KEY. AIR, as contributing to the health or difeafe of the human body, 163; various kinds, 16S. Anemone, 57, 58. Anger, various effects' of, 183. Angina peftoris, an uncommon diforder,' ti7. Animalcula infuforia, 70. Animalcules, various kinds, 62 ; the caufe of many difeafes, 76 ; particularly of bad teeth and of- fenlive breath, 78. Animal flowers, 56; cluftercd, 57; the Barbadoes, 59. Animal magnetifm, 257 ; Dr. Bell’s procefs, 258 ; arguments to prove that animal magnetifm is the caufe of fympathy in man and other animals, and even in plants, 276. Animals can exit! without air, 74. Atoms, nature of, 23 ; properties, magnitude, fi- gure, weight, and motion, of, 24. Bell-flower animalcule, or plumed polypus, 66. Brutes, an enquiry into the nature of, 49; curious inftances of friendfliip among brutes of different ipecies, 91; Bougeairt’s curioushypothefis, 104. Cantharides, their effects on the body, 349. Conception, progrefs of, and growth of the foetus, illuftrated with curious plates, 311; remarkable conceptions, owing to the conflict of the male and female procreative tin&ures, 332. Crifis, or critical turn, of a difeafe, 376. Difeafes, divided into hereditary and accidental, 289 : at what time hereditary difeafes are com. municated to the foetus, 308 ; difeafes, feminine, or lunar, 321; mafculine, or folar, 338 ; Hippo- crates’s inftruittions for the cure of flight difeafes, 381- Eels in pafte, 63. Electricity, medical, 241; curious experiments, 246. Exeroife, as conducive to health, 167. Fear, extraordinary effects of, 483; a ludicrous anecdote, 189. Firft matter explained, 22. Fixed air, as a medicine, 239. Flower-filh, their remarkable properties, 57. Foetus., how nouriflied in the womb, 313 ; its growth, and the diforders occafioned therebv, 3r3> 3i4, &c. Food, its nature and qualities, 15S. Fox, fagacity of, &c. 117. France, king and queen of, their nativities ex- amined, 392. Generation, occult properties of, in plants and herbs, 39. Globe-animal, various kinds, 67. God, his exiitence clearly pointed out, 4. Grief, a deftruCtive paliion, 194. Hair-like infeft, 62. Hare, account of the, 113. Health, rules for prefervmg, 233—239. Heaven, enquiries into the nature and fituation of, 7. Hunter, Mr. curious experiments made by him, 338. Hydrophobia, 221, 326. Jackall, vulgarly called the lion’s provider, 122. Impotency, lometimes occafioned by fear, 189; other .caufes of it, 191 ; cure, 194. Impregnation, the procefsof, 290. InfeCt with net-like arms, 69. Inftinft diftinguifhed from reafon, 81, 82 ; curious inftances of in various animals, 82—112; bees, 82 ; caterpillars, and wafps, 84 ; a cat, 85 ; crows, 85, 91; cuckows, 865 horfes, 91, 97; ravens, 92; elephants, with fome uncommon anecdotes, 93 ; dogs, 99 ; the land-cpab, 109. Intemperance, deftruttive effedls of, i8x. Longevity, remarkable inftances of, 144; caufes of, 147, &c. Love, its foundation and effedfs, 195. Lunar Table, pointing out the various turns of a difeafe, 380; <= .plained by the nativities and de- cumbitures of Charles Thomas and Dr. Till THE Adams, &c. 382, &c. farther explained by a de<= cumbiture only, 389. Lunar Tindture, its adtion on female conftitutiohs, 317—332 ; with cafes annexed in proof of its ef- ficacy, in irregularity of the menfes, 323 ; green ficknefs, 324; floor albus, 327; barrennefs, 331 ; recommended to ail married women, -335- and to women at the turn of life, 336 ; cafe of a tainted habit in a ftate of pregnancy relieved by this medicine, 360. Man confldered in his various relations, 122; va- rieties of the human fpecies, as enumerated by Linnaeus, 126 ; how arranged by Dr. Gmelir, 126, &c. how differing from brutes, 127 ; natu- ral hiftory of man, 129; confiderations on thcJ indifpofitions and difeafes of, 280 ; formed ori- ginally perfedt, and capable of propagating from his own eflence, 285 ; reparation of the male and female effences in the formation of Eve, 286 ■ man’s fall, 287 ; thence became fubjedt to dif- eafe and death, 289. Melancholy, enquiry into the caufes of, 204. Mole, or falfe conception, 315. Monfters, 127. Nature, definition of it, 9 ; its properties, vifible and occult, explained, 13. Nutrition in the animal economy, 155. CEfophagus, a dangerous affedtion of, 232. Paflions of the mind, 183—205. Perfpiration, infenfible, a medium whereby bad hu- mours are carried oft’, 346. Pipe-animal, 68. Pojypus, 56, 60. Pregnancy, difeafes attendant on, 332. Prognoftics of difeafes, 205. Proteus, a curious animalcule, 64. Puberty, the changes it produces in the human fyftem, 302. Quickening, adtion of, defcribed, 342. Rabbit, great fecundity of, 115. Salivation, accidental, a curious cafe, 36r. Scent, 112—122. Scrophula, its progrefs in undermining the human frame, 350. Sea-anemone, 58. Sea-carnation, 59. Sleep, a due regulation of, 172. Solar and Lunar Tindture, two medicines invented by the author, 317. I Solar Tindture, its adtion on the blood, 350 direc- tions for its ufe in the fcurvy and kings evil, 352 ; with a remarkable cafe, 353 ; cafespf pre- mature debility, 355 ; relaxed habit/ ibid, weak nerves, 356; nocturnal emiflions, fr incon- tinence of the lemen, 337 ; onanifm, 358; tainted habit, 359 ; tabes dorlalis, or confumpt,on of the back, 362; rheumatic gout, 363; fpajtns, cho- lic, and bloody flux, 364; dileafes of the breaft and lungs, afthma, dropfy, and confumption, 365; mental depreffions, ibid, bile 01 the ftc- mach, 366; bite of a mad dog, &C365; gun- fliot wounds, cuts, ftabs, &c. 369; dies of (ap- parently) Hidden death, 371. Spermatic animals, 69, 72, &c. Stag, his fagacity in avoiding the hunfers, 117. Sympathy and antipathy in natural holies, 29, 279; in brutes, 49, 277 ; operate very powerfully on females in a ftate of pregnancy, 33/. Sulphur, extraordinary virtues of, 75,34. Teeth, how to cleanfe and preferve/ 78; other re- marks on them, 80. Turn of life in women, the dange/ attending this period, and cautions to be obferted, 336. Valetudinarians, advice to, 233. Water-crefles, diforders cajifed by] 76 Wheel-animal, or vorticeila, 65. Wolf, natural hiftory of, 118. Worm, aquatic, 69. END. W. Lewis,Primer, St. JehnVsquaie, London.