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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Modus Operandi of Medicines Upon the Human Body: To Which Are Added, Some Observations on the Action of the Lymphatics The human body is fo conftruéled, that al though there is an intimate connection be tween its various parts, although one found part often fympathifes with another that is difeafed, and although medicines frequently operate upon one part through the medium of another, yet we are not to infer that one of thefe parts cannot be affected by difeafe or medicine without the whole Such an infe rence would be erroneous, as I hope to prove hereafter, inafmuch as it is contradic'ted by the eftablifhed laws of difeafes, and the operation of medicines employed for their cure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Bibb was born on October 2, 1781, in Amelia County, Georgia, United States. His grandfather was one John Bibb, a Huguenot from Wales who located in Hanover County, Virginia; his father was William Bibb, a captain in the Revolutionary Army. His mother, Sally Wyatt, a descendant of Gov. Francis Wyatt of Virginia, was the daughter of William and Sallie Wyatt, and a relative of Martha Custis Washington.
William Wyatt Bibb was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in medicine in 1801, and went at once to Petersburg, Georgia, where he practised his profession.
William served in both the House and Senate of the state legislature, and, elected as a Democrat to the United States Congress, he continued there from January 26, 1805, to November 6, 1813, when he resigned. He was then elected to fill the vacancy in the Senate caused by the resignation of William H. Crawford and served for three years, when he again resigned before the expiration of his term. His second resignation was due to a nation-wide disapproval of the congressional measure fixing the salaries of congressmen and senators at $1, 800 a year, the services of these officials prior to that time having been paid per diem during the sittings of the Congress.
President Monroe appointed Bibb, in April 1817, governor of the newly formed Territory of Alabama. He entered upon his duties at St. Stephens, and when the territory was admitted to the Union as a state his administration was indorsed by a popular vote which continued him as governor. The power of the Creek Indians having been broken by the army led by Andrew Jackson, following the massacre of Fort Mims, the administration of Bibb was pacific. His experience in public life was regarded as of great value in the formative period of the state's political history and especially in the framing of the constitution.
Bibb died in Autauga County, Alabama, from the effects of a fall from a horse frightened by a violent thunderstorm. He was succeeded as governor by his brother, Thomas Bibb, who was at the time serving as president of the Alabama Senate.
William Bibb was a well-known politician of his time. He also served as the first governor of the Alabama Territory from 1817 to 1819, and as the first elected governor of the state of Alabama from 1819 to his death in 1820. Bibb was one of the few who served as governor of a state and a U. S. senator from a different state.
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William Bibb was a member of the Democratic-Republican political party.
William Bibb was married in 1803 to Mary Freeman, known as "the beauty of Broad River, " daughter of Col. Holman Freeman of Wilkes County, Georgia, a Revolutionary hero and Whig leader under Gov. Elijah Clark.
