The way to health, long life, and happiness, or, a discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisit [sic] for the life of man, as all sorts of meats, drink, air, exercise, etc. ... Shewing ... whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them. To which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... by Philotheos Physiologus [i.e. T. Tryon] / Communicated to the world for a general good, by Thomas Tryon.

  • Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Date:
1697
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The way to health, long life, and happiness, or, a discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisit [sic] for the life of man, as all sorts of meats, drink, air, exercise, etc. ... Shewing ... whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them. To which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... by Philotheos Physiologus [i.e. T. Tryon] / Communicated to the world for a general good, by Thomas Tryon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CONTENTS. Chap. I. A Deferi^tion of the four grand Qualities, whence the four Complexions proceed. How every Man may know h'vs own Complexion • alfo o f Beafts and Herbs, and to what Femes, Fices and Dif- cafes each of' them are mofl fubjett • and what food is mo ft agreeable to Perfons of every Conflitution, p. i. Of the Bitter Quality, P* 3* Of the Sweet Quality, P- b. Of the Sour Quality, P* 7« Of the stftringent or Saltifh Quality, p. 8. Of the Cholerick Complexion, P- io. Of the Phlegmatick Complexion, P* 1 5» Of the Sanguine Complexion, p. *9* Of the Melancholy Complexion, p. 23. Chap. II. Of the excellency of Temperance, the Knowledge of a Man's fdf and the mighty Benefits of Abllinence and Sobriety, p. 31* which Fcfarc the Body t0 be the Temple of the Lord, . . 34? 35* Of the /Prophet Daniel^ refufing the dainties that came from the King's Table, p. 36. The Jbfiemious lives of the Rechabites, a reproach to the Ifiaelites. Hlfo oj Sampfon's drinking Wine, (kc, P-37- The caufe^of Let or us and Maingj Difcafcs, &c. P* 47. The 1