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Klappentext An ambitious work of philosophy and medical theory, attempting to marry occult understandings of the body with Enlightenment science. Zusammenfassung Intended as a companion volume to his bestselling Culpeper's English Physician! Ebenezer Sibly's 1795 work presents the body as a microcosm of all nature! its corruptions a result of imbalanced proportions of the four elements. Sibly draws upon Enlightenment science to try to prove an older! hermetically derived philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis A key to physic and the occult sciences: 1. God, and nature; 2. Of nature; 3. Of the visible and occult properties of nature; 4. Of the first matter; 5. Of atoms, and their nature; 6. The properties, magnitude, figure, weight, and motion, of atoms; 7. Of sympathy and antipathy in natural bodies; 8. Of the occult properties of generation in plants and herbs; 9. Of sympathy, antipathy, sagacity, and occult instinct, in brutes; 10. Of animal flowers; 11. Of the polypus; 12. Of animalcules; 13. Of instinct; 14. Of scent; 15. Of man; 16. Of nutrition; 17. Of food, or aliment; 18. Of air; 19. Of exercise; 20. Of sleep; 21. Of dreams; 22. Of intemperance; 23. Of the passions; 24. Of impotency occasioned by fear; 25. Of grief; 26. Of love; 27. Of melancholy; 28. Of the prognostics of diseases, with rules for preserving health; 29. Angina pectoris; 30. Dangerous affection of the oesophagus; 31. Observations on the means of preserving health; 32. Of fixed air as a medicine; 33. Of medical electricity; 34. Of animal magnetism; 35. Arguments to prove, that animal magnetism is the cause of sympathy in man and other animals, and in plants, etc.; 36. Of antipathy; 37. Effects of antipathy and sympathy in brute animals; 38. Of attraction and repulsion, otherwise called sympathy and antipathy in plants; 39. Considerations on the indispositions and diseases of man; 40. Of indisposition and disease; 41. Of human impregnation; 42. Of feminine, or lunar diseases; 43. Chlorosis, or green sickness, by some called, the love-fever; 44. Of the fluor albus, or whites; 45. Of barrenness, or infertility; 46. Indispositions attendant on pregnancy; 47. State of women at the turn of life; 48. Of masculine, or solar diseases; 49. Scrophula, scurvy, or king's evil; 50. Debilitated, tainted, and enfeebled, constitutions; 51. A relaxed habit; 52. Hypochondriacal debility, or weak nerves; 53. Nocturnal emisions, or incontinence of the semen; 54. Onanism; 55. An impure or tainted habit; 56. A tainted habit in a state of pregnancy; 57. Tabes dorsalis, or consumption of the back; 58. Rheumatic gout; 59. Agues, convulsions, cholic, bloody-flux, and violent spasms in the stomach and bowels; 60. Diseases of the breast and lungs, asthma, dropsy, or consumption; 61. Mental depression, or lowness of spirits; 62. Bile on the stomach; 63. Bite of a mad dog, or any venomous reptile; 64. For gun-shot wounds, cuts, stabs, etc.; 65. Of the principles of life and death; 66. Of the crisis, or critical turn of a disease; 67. A lunar table; 68. On the difference betwixt a natural and violent death, exemplified by the fate of the late King and Queen of France....
