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, 1577-1660
- Date:
- 1637
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Via recta ad vitam longam
Plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health.
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by R. Bishop, for Henry Hood, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleetstreet, 1637.
Physical description
14 unnumbered pages, 363 pages, 1 unnumbered page
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 24646.
Notes
"The baths of Bathe", originally published in 1628, and "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco", originally published in 1621, each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
Includes index.
A variant (STC 24647) has imprint date 1638 on general title.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Some print faded and show-through.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1368:12) s1999 miun s