{"product_id":"a-key-to-physic-and-the-occult-sciences-paperback-9781108044288","title":"A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108044288","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn ambitious work of philosophy and medical theory, attempting to marry occult understandings of the body with Enlightenment science.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEbenezer Sibly (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108044288, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e428 pages, 11 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e29.7 x 21 x 2.2 cm, 1.02 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePhysician, astrologer and occult philosopher, Ebenezer Sibly (1751–99) wrote popular works of medical theory and advice, including Culpeper's English Physician (1789) and this companion volume of 1795. A synthesis of theology, natural philosophy and medical science, the book argues for a microcosmic understanding of the human body as a composite of the four essential elements. An ambitious work, it bears witness to an important era in the development of modern medicine, as Sibly looks to combine an older hermetic tradition with new Enlightenment-era insights into the physical universe. In the final section of the work, Sibly touts his remedies, Lunar Tincture and Solar Tincture, developed to act upon female and male ailments, respectively. Composed from the 'pabulum of the universe', these medicines, Sibly claims, cure everything from gunshot wounds to dog bites.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA key to physic and the occult sciences: 1. God, and nature\u003cbr\u003e 2. Of nature\u003cbr\u003e 3. Of the visible and occult properties of nature\u003cbr\u003e 4. Of the first matter\u003cbr\u003e 5. Of atoms, and their nature\u003cbr\u003e 6. The properties, magnitude, figure, weight, and motion, of atoms\u003cbr\u003e 7. Of sympathy and antipathy in natural bodies\u003cbr\u003e 8. Of the occult properties of generation in plants and herbs\u003cbr\u003e 9. Of sympathy, antipathy, sagacity, and occult instinct, in brutes\u003cbr\u003e 10. Of animal flowers\u003cbr\u003e 11. Of the polypus\u003cbr\u003e 12. Of animalcules\u003cbr\u003e 13. Of instinct\u003cbr\u003e 14. Of scent\u003cbr\u003e 15. Of man\u003cbr\u003e 16. Of nutrition\u003cbr\u003e 17. Of food, or aliment\u003cbr\u003e 18. Of air\u003cbr\u003e 19. Of exercise\u003cbr\u003e 20. Of sleep\u003cbr\u003e 21. Of dreams\u003cbr\u003e 22. Of intemperance\u003cbr\u003e 23. Of the passions\u003cbr\u003e 24. Of impotency occasioned by fear\u003cbr\u003e 25. Of grief\u003cbr\u003e 26. Of love\u003cbr\u003e 27. Of melancholy\u003cbr\u003e 28. Of the prognostics of diseases, with rules for preserving health\u003cbr\u003e 29. Angina pectoris\u003cbr\u003e 30. Dangerous affection of the oesophagus\u003cbr\u003e 31. Observations on the means of preserving health\u003cbr\u003e 32. Of fixed air as a medicine\u003cbr\u003e 33. Of medical electricity\u003cbr\u003e 34. Of animal magnetism\u003cbr\u003e 35. Arguments to prove, that animal magnetism is the cause of sympathy in man and other animals, and in plants, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 36. Of antipathy\u003cbr\u003e 37. Effects of antipathy and sympathy in brute animals\u003cbr\u003e 38. Of attraction and repulsion, otherwise called sympathy and antipathy in plants\u003cbr\u003e 39. Considerations on the indispositions and diseases of man\u003cbr\u003e 40. Of indisposition and disease\u003cbr\u003e 41. Of human impregnation\u003cbr\u003e 42. Of feminine, or lunar diseases\u003cbr\u003e 43. Chlorosis, or green sickness, by some called, the love-fever\u003cbr\u003e 44. Of the fluor albus, or whites\u003cbr\u003e 45. Of barrenness, or infertility\u003cbr\u003e 46. Indispositions attendant on pregnancy\u003cbr\u003e 47. State of women at the turn of life\u003cbr\u003e 48. Of masculine, or solar diseases\u003cbr\u003e 49. Scrophula, scurvy, or king's evil\u003cbr\u003e 50. Debilitated, tainted, and enfeebled, constitutions\u003cbr\u003e 51. A relaxed habit\u003cbr\u003e 52. Hypochondriacal debility, or weak nerves\u003cbr\u003e 53. Nocturnal emisions, or incontinence of the semen\u003cbr\u003e 54. Onanism\u003cbr\u003e 55. An impure or tainted habit\u003cbr\u003e 56. A tainted habit in a state of pregnancy\u003cbr\u003e 57. Tabes dorsalis, or consumption of the back\u003cbr\u003e 58. Rheumatic gout\u003cbr\u003e 59. Agues, convulsions, cholic, bloody-flux, and violent spasms in the stomach and bowels\u003cbr\u003e 60. Diseases of the breast and lungs, asthma, dropsy, or consumption\u003cbr\u003e 61. Mental depression, or lowness of spirits\u003cbr\u003e 62. Bile on the stomach\u003cbr\u003e 63. Bite of a mad dog, or any venomous reptile\u003cbr\u003e 64. For gun-shot wounds, cuts, stabs, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 65. Of the principles of life and death\u003cbr\u003e 66. Of the crisis, or critical turn of a disease\u003cbr\u003e 67. A lunar table\u003cbr\u003e 68. 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