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, M.D. F.R.H.S. of Upper Titchfield Street Fitzroy Square.
- Ebenezer Sibly
- Date:
- [1798?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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, M.D. F.R.H.S. of Upper Titchfield Street Fitzroy Square. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![venereal nature, but was rather the confequence of the remedy than of the difeafe, fince it arofe entirely from the long and repeated dofes of mercury his body had fuftained, and which was grounded in his habit by falivation. The mercury had infinuated itfelf into the mar-row of his bones, had vitiated every fluid fecretion, and tainted the very air he breathed. Under fuch circumftances I will allow, it is very difficult, if not almoft impoilible, for a phyfician, upon a fuperficial infpe&ion, abfolutely to decide, whether the original difeafe hath been altogether overcome ; yet furely he ought atten- tively to diftinguifh and confider the fevera] fymp- toms apart; and then, by comparing them with each other, a clear judgment may be formed upon the general retrofpect. Finding, by this method, the real ftate of the patient's cafe, I ordered him a nouriihing diet, gentle exercife, and an abfolute denial of the leaft intercourfe with women. To this he readily fubmitted, putting himfelf under a regular courfe of the Solar Tincture, which he took three times a day, in the quantity of a wineglafs three parts full, filled up with cold water, for the firft month. At the expiration of this time he paid me a vifit, when his company was infinitely more agreeable, becaufe the pleafing afpetl of health had fuperfeded the naufeous effluvia of his difeafe. I now only enjoined him to follow the fame regi- men and abftemious mode of living for a month or two longer, taking the Tincture diluted in a glafs of cold fpring water once or twice a day, as he might find himfelf inclined. This he rigidly at- tended to ; and I have now the pleafure to declare, that only nine large bottles of the' Solar Tinc- ture have reftored this gentleman from the moll dangerous and deplorable ftate of a tainted and corrupted habit, to found health, and a renovated ftate of the blood and juices, A TAINTED](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2144254x_0159.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
