The medical mirror, or, Treatise on the impregnation of the human female : Shewing the origin of diseases and the principles of life and death.

  • Ebenezer Sibly
Date:
[1798?]
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Credit: The medical mirror, or, Treatise on the impregnation of the human female : Shewing the origin of diseases and the principles of life and death. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MDPenical Mirror. OF THE HUMAN IMPREGNATION. af KN the exercife of our three-fold duty, to God, to our neighbour, and to ourfelves; in .con- templating the works of creation, and the ‘Word of Gop, unfolded to us by the light of reafon and ~ {eripture ; by analogy, medical expetiments, chy- miftry and anatomy, we are enabled to trace the human, economy farther in her retirement, and deeper in her occult retreat, than fome medicak men are willing to fuppofe. ‘Impoverifhed by a fafhionable ftyle of living, and driven to a neceflity of multiplying potions and fees, their objeét i is not to heal, but to nourifh, the feeds of human infirmity, The truth of this remark has. been but too often experienced, and in- — deed conressep by fome, in thofe awful moments, ’ when diffimulation would be vain. Far be it from et capacity ; ; it is ; only the inedical paaila that I wifh’ to eradicate ; and’ I am perfuaded every good. man. in the faculty. would with heart and hand affift me in fo laudable a purfuit. It was principally with this view, and to affift private families in the yaoments of extremity, that I was induced. to offer. thofe fimple modes of cure and felf-prefervation, x
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