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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    which penetrate the eyes of thofe feen by the bafililk; the nature of this poifon can- not be explained, unlefs we know the occult property of poifon, becaufe poifon kills only by a contrariety betwixt us and it; whence Sve difcover the principle of this contrariety of the bafililk, that the fpirits iffuing out of the pores of its eyes kill thofe animals which they meet with, becaufe the fpirits penetrate them by their fub ■ tilty, or lharp figure, like needles piercing the heart. The poifon of vipers, and fuch like, is not fo acute nor fo deadly, nor fo ready in its effedts, as that of the ba- fililk. In reference to this matter, there are many things that are worth confidering. In the firft place, it is certain that the bafililk is not engendered but in moifi; deep places, as in the bottom of pits w'here there is nothing but muddy, thick, ftinking, water. In the fecond place, it is to be obferved, that if you take a glafs, and hold it againft: the bafilifk’s eyes, thofe fpirits which ilfue from his eyes refledling upon the glafs are font back from whence they came, and will kill the bafiliflc. Now it cannot be faid that the bafiliflc hates itfelf; but that the venomous fpirits, refledling from the glafs, receive a more violent motion, and forcibly drive back the other fpirits w'hich are iffuing from his eyes, fo that they penetrate his brain and heart, and thence occafion his death; in the fame manner as vapours often arife with fo great violence from the hypochondria, the mefentery, and the ftomach, into the head, that they caufe an apoplexy, epileptic dizzinefs, or lethargy; and fometimes they are carried with fuch fubtilty and violence into the heart, that the perfons fo aftiidled die fuddenly. A ftrange antipathy fubfitls in fome vegetables, as between the colew'ort and the vine, which, if planted near together, will irifsnfibly give back and lean fideAvays, as if they really hated one another. This effect cannot be afcribed to any thing but the emiffion of the corpufcles and material fpirits of both of them, which rufli upon one another, and mutually repel, by the irregularity of their figures. This is appa- rent in the juice of coleworts, which if taken by a man when he is drunk, he pre- fently comes to himfelf and is fober; becaufe the corpufcles of the juice of coleworts blunt the corpufcles of the juice of the vine._ In the fame manner, we find by ex- perience, thatfpirit of opium or laudanum cures the cholic, head-ach, tooth-ach, and other kinds of pains; it alfo cures the phrenfy, and procures fleep. But there is need of the greateft care in ufing thefe narcotic medicines, becaufe it often happens that the vital fpirits are fo ftupified by them, that they are deprived of their motion, which caufes a deadly fleep. The colew'ort and the vine have not fo pow'erful an effedt on each other as narcotic medicines have on the animal fpirits; for neither the vine nor the colew^rt will lean Tideways if there be cloth or paper fet betwixt them, becaufe the corpufcles flowing from each are then flopped in their w'ay. A third