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Longevity - Early works to 1800

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An essay of health and long life. By George Cheyne, M. D. F. R. S.
Cheyne, George, 1671-1743.Date: 1725
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An essay of health and long life. By George Cheyne, ...
Cheyne, George, 1671-1743.Date: 1725
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Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated and punctually applied to every age and constitution of body. Much more enlarged than the former impressions / By Tho. Venner Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed by the same authour, a very necessary, and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the city of Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All which are likewise amplified since the former impressions.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1650
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Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life. Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, A noble Venetian, when near an hundred years old. Translated into English by W. Jones, A.B.
Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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Human longevity : recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 : comprising a period of 1733 years : with anecdotes of the most remarkable / by James Easton.
Easton, James, 1759-1839.Date: 1799