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An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

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 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.

John Graves, aged 102. Engraving by G. Vertue.

Amitāyus surrounded by forms of himself. Distemper on linen by a Tibetan painter.

The arts of Minerva reduce the power of Time to end life, but death from old age or from plague still exists. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.

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 ... Whereunto is annexed ... a treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer ... Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All ... amplified / [Tobias Venner].

Francisci Baronis de Vervlamio ... Historia vitae et mortis / Cum annotatioinb. [sic] Barthol. Moseri. Nouiter in lucem data omnibus longioris vitæ cupidis, et secretioris philosophiæ ac medicinæ studiosis perutilis, litteratis deniq[ue] universis lectu iucunda.

Wanshou, the astral god of longevity . Watercolour and embroidery by a Chinese artist or artists.

Florida corona que ad sanitatis hominum conseruationem ac longeuam vitam perducendam sunt pernecessaria continens / Ab Anthonio Gazio Parauino ... composita.

The code of health and longevity, or, Rules and principles for first, preserving health, second, prolonging life, and, third, curing and alleviating disease. With directions for appropriate diet and regimen / By Sir John Sinclair.

Essai sur la santé et sur les moyens de prolonger la vie / Traduit de l'anglois de M. Cheyne par M.***.

The prolongation of life : optimistic studies / by Élie Metchnikoff ; English translation edited by P. Chalmers Mitchell.

General remarks on the health of English manufacturers : and on the need which exists for the establishment of convalescents' retreats as subservient to the medical charities of our large towns / by John Roberton.

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Florida corona que ad sanitatis hominum conseruationem ac longeuam vitam perducendam sunt pernecessaria continens / Ab Anthonio Gazio Parauino ... composita.

The code of health and longevity, or, Rules and principles for first, preserving health, second, prolonging life, and, third, curing and alleviating disease. With directions for appropriate diet and regimen / By Sir John Sinclair.

Essai sur la santé et sur les moyens de prolonger la vie / Traduit de l'anglois de M. Cheyne par M.***.

The prolongation of life : optimistic studies / by Élie Metchnikoff ; English translation edited by P. Chalmers Mitchell.

General remarks on the health of English manufacturers : and on the need which exists for the establishment of convalescents' retreats as subservient to the medical charities of our large towns / by John Roberton.