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Longevity - Early works to 1800
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Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated and punctually applied to every age and constitution of body. Much more enlarged than the former impressions / By Tho. Venner Doctor of Physick in Bathe. Whereunto is annexed by the same authour, a very necessary, and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer the city of Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All which are likewise amplified since the former impressions.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1650
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Human longevity : recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 : comprising a period of 1733 years : with anecdotes of the most remarkable / by James Easton.
Easton, James, 1759-1839.Date: 1799- Books
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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 ... ; 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, 1577-1660Date: 1638- Books
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Via recta ad vitam longam, or, A plain philosophicall discourse of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments, and dieteticall obseruations, make for the preseruation of health : with their iust applications vnto euery age, constitution of body, and time of yeare : wherein also by way of introduction, the nature and choise of habitable places, with the true vse of our famous bathes of Bathe, is perspicuously demonstrated / by To. Venner ... ; whereunto is also annexed a compendious treatise concerning the true use of tobacco by the same author.
Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660Date: 1638- Books
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Wonderful news from Wales: or, A true narrative of an old woman : living near Lanselin in Denbyshire; whose memory serves her truly and perfectly to relate what she hath seen and done one hundred and thirty years ago. Having now the full number of her teeth; the most of them were lost when she was three score years and ten. She is also remembred by some of ninety years old, to be taller than she is by 17 or 18 inches; with several other circumstances of her life, which shews her to be the wonder of our age. Licensed August 9. 1677.
Date: Anno Dom. 1677