The medical mirror. Or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / By E. Sibly.

Date:
[1796?]
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Credit: The medical mirror. Or treatise on the impregnation of the human female. Shewing the origin of diseases, and the principles of life and death / By E. Sibly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ble a purfuit. It was principally with this view, and to aflift private families in the moments of extremity, that I was induced to offer thofe fimple modes of cure and felf-prefervation, fo amply difpenfedin my edition of the Family Phyfician. And my prefent purpofe beins to make that invaluable family book ft ill more complete, I fhall here explain the nature of human ge- neration, and the principles of animal life, that I may from thence deduce the origin of hereditary difeafes,' and point out with more facility thofe which are acci- dental. And in this Treatife I fhall endeavour to fur- nifh my readers with fuch obvious diredions for ejchew- ing the evil, and choofmg the good, that, if refolutely fol- lowed, will not fail to preferve health and long life, and prove of no fmall benefit to future generations. When God created Adam, he planted in him the feeds of that Divine EfTence requifite to propagate the human life andJoul. Theologifts may contradicfb me; yet I will not fo much derogate, from the wifdom and omnipotence of the Creator, as to fuppofe he fhould watch the impregnation of every human female, and by fo many feparate and diftindl ads of his power give life, fpirit, and foul, to the foetus. The Creator of Man, viewing with unbounded forefight the purpofes before him, by one aft of his omnipotence, blended in Adam all the faculties of the human and celeftial nature; and, without any doubt, when he was formed one, in God's exprefs image, he pofTefTed the means of propa- gating, from his own effence, beings like himfelf. It is here difficult to afTociate the imperfedt ideas of hu- man