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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    when they are produced by con^pgion; the poifon filentlyand flowly diffuies itfelf throughout the whole mafsj and a highly morbid ftate is imperceptibly in- duced. Thus, an adlive and infinuating poifon inti- mately mixes itfelf with all the containing, perhaps, as well as contained, parts, perverts their natures, and is ready to fall upon and deftroy the very powers of life, before one fymptom of its adtion or of its influence has been difcerned. It is the fame in a confirmed lues, and it is even more remarkable in the hydrophobia derived from the bite of a mad dog ] and the whole round of contagious difeafes have the fame unalarming, yet certain, progrefs and termination. That the final influence of this elaborate procefs fhould be determined particularly, and at all times, to the ovaria, is no way marvellous. To qualify the ovaria for this, they are fupplied with a congeries of blood-vefTels and nerves, at puberty larger and more numerous than what is allotted to any other part of fimilar magnitude. Were the ovaria merely a recep- tacle for the ova, which the venereal Orgafm, commu- nicated by the nerves, or by the impulfion of the ap- plied femen, was to lacerate ; what ufe would there be for fo intricate and extenfive an arrangement of blood- vefTels and nerves ? But we may farther remark, that every diftind procefs in the human body, either during health or difeafe, tends to one particular and diftind: purpofe. The kidneys do not fecrete bile, nor does the liver ftrain ofF the ufelefs or hurtful parts of the blood which are deftined to pafs off by the emulgentsi neither