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 the spirits of men; and the sympathy between celestial and terrestrial bodies ... 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 ... / By E. Sibly.

  • Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.
Date:
1814
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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 the spirits of men; and the sympathy between celestial and terrestrial bodies ... 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 ... / By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that all perfons are capable of deriving great improvements from reading; and, that it is not fo much the want of natural ability, as of induftry and application, that fo many men difgrace the image of the Deity, and degrade the venerable profeffions of Divinity, Phyfic, and Law. It rarely happens that the want of intellect, or natural endowments of the mind, are the rocks on which men fplit in their profeffional chara6ter. Indocile and unapt indeed muft that man be, whom education, experience, obfervation, read- ing, or enquiry, will not fet generally right in his progrefs through life. Yet, without induftry, and an anxious defire of knowledge and improvement, neither education, nor all the advantages of natural ability, can fave us from the wreck of error, or the difgrace of ignorance. Obftinate men, though of the firft capacity in the world, are a forlorn hope, and often irrecoverably loft, by unadvifedly pur- fuing the phantom of'their own brain; wftilft others, enriched by dignity of fenfe, and qualified by depth of underftanding to form the brightest charadters amongft fociety, furrender up their talents for difcernment and enquiry, and content them- felves with taking upon truft whatever they fee or hear ; particularly in the prac- tice of phyfic, in the law, and in the church. The mifchiefs attendant on this ge- neral condudl of mankind, are great and many; for by thus implicity fubfcribing to the vague notions, and falfe dodtrines, of others; by fhutting their eyes againft the light of reafon and enquiry, and refufing to receive the convidtion of their own fenfes, they transfer error from one generation to another, until the unlettered multitude, dazzled by the fplendid ignorance of the learned few, become difciples to their miftakes, and make error and enthufiafm an hereditary difeafe. Hence, then, we fee the neceffity of confuiting our own reafon, and employing our own underftanding, in the difcrimination of all our temporal and eternal af- fairs; and of adting and judging for ourfelves on all occafions which immediately regard our health, our happinefs, or our life; and under all thofe affiidtions and misfortunes wherewith we ftruggle in this world, in our paffage to a better; to one more gloriousa nd permanent; the ultimate end and reward of all our labours ! Our fenfes, on thefe occafions, are ever ready to fupport our endeavours, and per- form their office; and it is unqueftionably the duty of all men to exercife, to im- prove, and employ them. Yet it is aftonifhing in general to fee how diftruftful we are of thofe very faculties Nature has given us for our guide, and how fondly we fubmit to the opinions of others, whofe nerves cannot feel for us, and whofe judgment is often founded upon erroneous principles, and fometimes on no princi- ples at all. This, however, is a conduft by no means fitted to the dignity and office aftigned to man; who being placed at the head of all God’s works upon earth, walking