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.

Description

Main Author

Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.

Related Names

Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.
Hood, Henry, active 1635-1654, bookseller.
Bishop, Richard, active 1631-1653, printer.

Language(s)

English ; Latin

Published

London : Printed by R. Bishop, for Henry Hood, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleetstreet, 1638.

Subjects

Tobacco.
Longevity.
Hygiene.
Tobacco.
Balneology.
Nutrition Therapy.
Longevity.
Hygiene.
Tobacco > Tobacco / Early works to 1800.
Longevity > Longevity / Early works to 1800.
Hygiene > Hygiene / Early works to 1800.
England > England / Bath.
England.
Bath (England) > Bath (England) / Early works to 1800.
Early works.

Note

Includes index (pages [7]-[14], first group).
Errata listed on leaf a4r.
Head-pieces; initials; printed marginal notes.
The first leaf is blank.
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-2Z⁴ ²2A² ; 190 leaves.
"The bathes of Bathe: or, A necessary compendious treatise concerning the nature, use, and efficacie of those famous hot waters" and "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco ..." have separate title pages, dated 1637; pagination and register are continuous.

Physical Description

[16], 364 pages ; 19 cm (4to)

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