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 spirits of men; and the sympathy between celestial and terrestrial bodies, from whence is deduced an obvious discrimination of future events, in the motions and position of the luminaries, planets, and stars; the universal spirit and economy of nature, in the production of all things; the principles of etherial, and atmospherical influx, in constituting the proper recipient of life; the active and passive tinctures requisite in the generation of men and brutes; and the foundation and necessity of that invisible agitation of matter, which stimulates and impels every living creature in the act of begetting its like; the properties of vegetable, mineral and animal magnetism: the fundamental causes and qualities, visible or occult, of all diseases, both of mind and body, and the simple modes prescribed by nature for their prevention and cure : 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 ; published for the good of all / by E. Sibly.

  • Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.
Date:
1821
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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 spirits of men; and the sympathy between celestial and terrestrial bodies, from whence is deduced an obvious discrimination of future events, in the motions and position of the luminaries, planets, and stars; the universal spirit and economy of nature, in the production of all things; the principles of etherial, and atmospherical influx, in constituting the proper recipient of life; the active and passive tinctures requisite in the generation of men and brutes; and the foundation and necessity of that invisible agitation of matter, which stimulates and impels every living creature in the act of begetting its like; the properties of vegetable, mineral and animal magnetism: the fundamental causes and qualities, visible or occult, of all diseases, both of mind and body, and the simple modes prescribed by nature for their prevention and cure : 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 ; published for the good of all / by E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the produ6lion of the difeafe; but both muft concur. The bufinefs of phyfic, there- fore, is to eradicate both together, which, in conjun6i:ion, conftitute the proximate or immediate caufe. The remote caufe inherent in the body, is called predifponent, antecedent, and by the Greeks w-fon^oufAEV)), and confifls principally in temperaments, plethora, and cacochymy. The caufe whofe acceffion to the remote caufe excites, and in conjunction with it forms, the difeafe, is called the procatarClic caufe, or the wfofpatTif, or occaiion of the difeafe. It is fometimes internal, fometimes external. Thefe Boerhaave reduces to four claifes. Firft, the ingejla, or things entering the body; fuch as the air, aliments, drink, medicines, poifons, fuch things as enter by the pores of the fkin and noftrils; by tlie feveral paffages of the mouth, lungs, oefophagus, ftomach, inieflines, &c. either in a vifible or invifible manner; vyhether by fleam, draught, deglutition, clyfter, or injeClion. Secondly, the gejla, or things aCled, as motion of the whole or any part of the body, affeClions of the mind, reft, both of the body and mind, fleeping and watching. Thirdly, things retained, or excreted, whether falubrious, fecrementious, or morbid. Fourthly, things applied to the body; as air, vapours, fomentations, cloths, liniments, ointments, and plafters ; together with whatever wounds, contufes, or corrodes : all which cir- cumftances ftiould be well confidered by medical men. Of THE FIRST MATTER. ALL philofophers agree that there is afirji matter, which was pjroduced from the beginning; and, though it can never undergo any change, yet it is to be feen in all the generations and corruptions which are in nature. Hence it appears, that the firft matter exifted before the. generation of the compounds wherein it is found, and that it ftill remains and furvives the corruption of it; as, for inftance, in fire which is made of chips; the matter of the fire was in the chips, and is found partly in the fire, partly in the fmoke, and partly alfo in the allies. It is agreed by all, that no- thing produces nothing, and that there is not any thing in nature that can be redu- ced into nothing, but that the firft principles remain in all revolutions which can happen ; therefore, in refpe6l of matter, we may juftly fay, that there is nothing new in the world fince the creation, and that this matter in its nature is incorrupti- ble; fo that to explain the effence of this fit ft matter is the only difficulty.—Ariftotle makes it the fubjeft of all forms, and nottiing but a palfive power or a mere capacity of producing them. He fays alfo', that matter in itfelf hath neither quality nor quan- tity, nor any effence befi Jes that which it received from that form which perfedled it: but this explication gives us no clear idea of matter, neither doth it teach us any thing of the nature of it. Thofe were nearer the truth who faid that the firft matter was