A guide to health through the various stages of life. Wherein are Explained, I. The different Degrees and Changes of Age, the principal and inevitable Causes of Old Age, and finally of our Dissolution; with a Chronological and Historical brief Account of Long Lives from before the Flood to this present Time. II. The Nature, Properties, Qualities, and Influence of Air. Of Aliments; the Choice of them; their Power upon Human Bodies, with their good and bad Effects. Of Sleeping and Waking; of Motion and Rest; of Retention and Excretion; and of the Passions of the Mind. III. Of the Definitions, Diagnosticks, Prognosticks, and Curative Indications, both Medicinal and Dietetical; of Acute and Chronical Diseases incident to Human Bodies; with the Nature and Use of Bathing and Frictions. The whole illustrated with useful annotations, methodically and succinctly digested, and confirmed by the Authority of the most celebrated Authors, both Ancient and Modern. By Bernard Lynch, M.D.
- Lynch, Bernard, -1745.
- Date:
- 1754
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for M. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row, 1754.
Physical description
xxxii,480p. ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC N1979
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.