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The castle of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first authour thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot knight.
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546Date: 1610
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Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health : with divers necessary dieteticall observations; as also of the true use and effects of sleep, exercise, excretions, and perturbations, with just applications to every age, constitution of body, and time of yeere. By To. Venner, Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed by the same author, a necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe, with a censure of the medicinable faculties of the water of Saint Vincent's rocks neere the city of Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1637
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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: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]
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Regimen sanitatis Salerni: or, The schoole of Salernes regiment of health : Containing, most learned and judicious directions and instructions, for the preservation, guide, and government of mans life. Dedicated, unto the late high and mighty King of England, from that university, and published (by consent of learned physicians) for a generall good. Reviewed, corrected, and inlarged with a commentary, for the more plain and easie understanding thereof. / By P.H. Dr. in Physicke, deceased. Whereunto is annexed, a necessary discourse of all sorts of fish, in use among us, with their effects appertaining to the health of man. As also, now, and never before, is added certain precious and approved experiments for health, by a right honorable, and noble personage.
Joannes, de MediolanoDate: 1649 [i.e. 1650]
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Medicina statica: being the aphorisms of Sanctorius, translated into English, with large explanations. To which is added, Dr. Keil's Medicina statica britannica, with comparative Remarks and Explanations. As also Medico-Physical essays on I. Agues. II. Fevers. III. An Elastic Fible. IV. The Goul. V. The Leprody. VI. King's Evil. Vii. Vegereal Diseast. The fourth edition. By John Quincy, M.D.
Santorio, Santorio, 1561-1636.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
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Regimen sanitatis Salerni. This boke teachinge all people to gouerne them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel.
Joannes, de MediolanoDate: [Anno. M.D.XLI. [1541]]
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Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life. Together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the Use of Families; in order to banish the prevailing Abuses and Prejudices in Medicine. By A. F. M. Willich, M. D. Physician to the Saxon Embassy at the Court of Great Britain; Author of The Elements of Critical Philosophy, &c.
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger), active 1776.Date: 1799
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A compendious or short treatise, gathered out of the chyefe and principall authors of phisycke : conteynyuge certeyne preceptes necessary to the preseruacion of healthe, and longe continuaunce of the same: verye pleasaunte and profitable to reade.
Wingfield, HenryDate: [1551?]]
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This is the myrrour or glasse of helth : necessary & nedefull for euery person to loke in, that wyll kepe their bodye from the syckenesse of the pestilence, & it sheweth how the planettes do raygne in euery houre of the daye and nyghte, with the natures and exposicio[n]s of the .xii. sygnes deuyded by the .xii. monethes of the yere, and shewed the remedies for many diuers infyrmyties and diseases that hurteth the bodye of manne.
Moulton, Thomas, active 1540?Date: [1546]
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This is the myrour or glasse of helthe : necessary and nedefull for euery person to loke in, that wyll kepe theyr body frome ye syckeuesse [sic] of the pestilence, and it showeth how the planetes do raygne in euery houre of the daye and nyght, with the natures and exposicio[n]s of the. xii. synes. deuyded by ye. xii. monthes of the yere, and sheweth the remedyes for many dyuers infirmytes and dyseases that hurteth the body of man.
Moulton, ThomasDate: [1548?]]
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Enquiries into human nature : in VI. anatomic prælections in the new theatre of the Royal Colledge of Physicians in London / by Walter Charleton.
Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707Date: 1680
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The history of health, and the Art of Preserving it: or, an account of all that has been recommended by physicians and philosophers, towards the Preservation of Health, from the most remote Antiquity to this Time. To which is subjoined, A succinct Review of the principal Rules relating to this Subject, together with the Reasons on which these Rules are founded. By James Mackenzie, M. D. Physician lately at Worcester, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.
Mackenzie, James, 1680?-1761.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
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An essay on sickness and health; wherein are contain'd, all necessary cautions and directions, for the regulation of diseas'd and healthy persons: in which Dr. Cheyne's mistaken opinions in his late essay, are occasionally taken notice of. By Edward Strother, M. D. Coll. Christ. Cantab. & Coll. Med. Lond. Reg. Colleg.
Strother, Edward, 1675-1737.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]
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In this tretyse that is cleped Gouernayle of helthe : what is to be sayd wyth crystis helpe of some thynges that longen to bodily helthe.
Date: [1490?]
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The hauen of health : chiefly made for the comfort of students, and consequently for all those that haue a care of their health, amplified vppon fiue wordes of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labour, meate, drinke, sleepe, Venus: by Thomas Coghan maister of Artes, & Bacheler of Phisicke: and now of late corrected and augmented. Hereunto is added a preseruation from the pestilence: with a short censure of the late sicknesse at Oxford.
Cogan, Thomas, 1545?-1607Date: 1588
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The castell of health / corrected and in some places augmented, by the firste aucthor thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot knight ; and nouu neuuly imprynted, in the yeare of our Lorde, 1576.
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546Date: [1576]
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Via recta ad vitam longam, or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health : with divers necessary dieteticall observations, as also of the true use and effects of sleep, exercise, excretions, and perturbations, with just applications to every age, constitution of body, and time of yeere / by To. Venner ... ; whereunto is annexed by the same author, a necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe, with a censure of the medicinable faculties of the water of Saint Vincent's rocks neere the city of Bristoll ; as also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1638
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Medical cautions, for the consideration of invalids; those especially who resort to Bath: containing essays on fashionable diseases; dangerous effects of hot and crowded rooms; regimen of diet, &c. An Enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters; an Essay on Quacks, Quack Medicines, and lady doctors; and an appendix, containing a table of the relative digestibility of foods, with explanatory observations. Published for the benefit of The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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A treatise of health and long life, with the sure means of attaining it, in two books. The first by Leonard Lessius, the second of Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian: translated into English, by Timothy Smith, apothecary.
Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.Date: [1743]
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An easy method to know the causes and signs of the humour most ruleth in the body : and to avoid thereby things hurtful: as also to enable men to give better account of the state of their bodies, when they are diseased to the physitian, and not hazard the lives of themselves and their freinds by only urging him to prophesy (and that often falsily) the disease by onely the inspection of vrine.
La Framboisière, Nicolas Abraham de, active 16th century-17th centuryDate: [1640?]
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Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life: together with physiological and chemical explanations, Calculated Chiefly for the Use of Families, in Order to Banish the Prevailing Abuses and Prejudices in Medicine. The second edition, improved and enlarged with Considerable Additions. By A. F. M. Willich, M.D.
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger), active 1776.Date: 1799
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The touchstone of complexions : Generallye appliable, expedient and profitable for all such, as be desirous and carefull of theyr bodyly health. Contayning most easy rules & ready tokens, whereby euery one may perfectly try, and throughly knowe, aswell the exacte state, habite, disposition, and constitution, of his body outwardly: as also the inclinations, affections, motions, and desires of his mynde invvardly. Fyrst wrytten in Latine, by Leuine Lemnie, and now Englished by Thomas Newton.
Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568Date: Anno 1581. Cum priuilegio
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Conseruandæ bonæ valetudinis præcepta : longè saluberrima Regi Angliæ quondam à doctoribus Scholæ Salernitanæ versibus conscripta, pristino suo nitori restituta, & rhythmis Anglicanis illustrata. The Salerne Schoole. Or, the regiment of health. That is, physicall obseruations, for the perfect preseruing of the body of man in continuall health.
Joannes, de MediolanoDate: Anno Dom. 1613
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Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life. Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, A noble Ve netian, when near an hundred Years old. Translated into English by W. Jones A.B.
Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.Date: MDCCLXVIII [1768]
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Regimen sanitatis Salerni : The schoole of Salernes most learned and iuditious directorie, or methodicall instructions, for the guide and gouerning the health of man. Dedicated, and sent by them, to the high and mighty King of England, and published (by consent of learned and skilfull physitions) for the good and benefite of all in generall. Perused, and corrected from many great and grosse imperfections, committed in former impressions: with the comment, and all the Latine verses reduced into English, and ordered in their apt and due places.
Joannes, de MediolanoDate: [1617?]