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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