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

  • Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.
Date:
[1834?]
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Credit: By His Majesty's royal letters patent, is particularly recommended, Dr. Sibly's re-animating solar tincture; or, pabulum of life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By HIS MAJESTY’S Hopal Setters patent. IS PARTICULARLY RECOMMENDED, Dr. Sibiy’s REANIMATING * Solar Tincture; OR, Pabulum of Life. THE refearches made by Dr. SIBLY into philofophical and chemical enquiries; his long and laborious application to the ftudy of fecond caufes, which are hidden, occult, or fpiritual ope¬ rations of Nature in all her works; the chemical analyzation of medical plants, herbs, and minerals; a contemplation of the human Ilrudure, with the principles of life and death; a minute invefti- gation of the ancient and modern pradice of phyfic; of hereditary, accidental, and acquired difeafes, and the dreadful consequences of a miftaken or mifguided treatment of them, are the fources whence the medicine is recommended to the notice of a candid and difcern- ing public. It is a melancholy fad, too long eftablithed to be doubted, that more than two thirds of the human race perith by improper manage¬ ment or neglect, either in the helplefs years of infancy, in the riper years of juvenile indifcretion, or in the more advanced ftage of life, when a tainted or fcorbutic habit has undermined the conftitution, and brought on a complication of maladies, as difficult to cure as the common remedies are in general remote from the purpofe. But {till more ffiocking is it to every fentiment of humanity to refled, that fome hundreds, perhaps thoufands, of valuable members of fociety are annually torn from their difconfolate families by fome accidental fudden caufe, and hurried thoughtlefsly to the grave, in whom the principles of life were capable of being revived ! This la-