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 INTRODUCTION To the Whole TREATISE. — CHAPTER I. - • • t h -4 j *'j> < ;• , , £ . .... ^ / .V. ■ ** ^ Defer if t ion of the Four Grand Qualities, whence the Four Complexions froceed. How every Man may know his own Complexion. K xV NOW THYSELF, was one of the firlt Precepts which the Ancients di&ated to the Students of Wifdom •• nor is there a greater Happinefs attainable upon Earth, than to have in a Sound Body, a Sound Mind. To direct my Fellow-Mor- Xals towards this great Point of Felicity, is the Scope and Intendment of our Pains in this Book : The Foun¬ dation-Principle of Wifdom being to underftand Na* ture, (which is the Art of God) and thereby our own Frame, Powers, Faculties and Conftitution, fo as to imbrace what is good, wholfom and agreeable, and to efehew all that is evil and harmful ^ and the End and Confummation thereof, is to know the Supreme Beings Author of created Nature, and to love, obey, and en¬ joy him for ever. In Order hereunto, temperance and Sobriety are fub- lime Gifts, and to be regarded with the higheft efteem, B not )*