The way to health, long life and happiness: or, A discourse of temperance, and the particular nature of all things requisite for the life of man
as, all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise, &c. with special directions how to use each of them to the best advantage of the body and mind : shewing from the true ground of nature, whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them : to which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs : with several other remarkable and most useful observations, very necessary for all families : the whole treatise displaying the most hidden secrets of philosophy, and made easie and familiar to the meanest capacities by various examples and demonstrances : the like never before published
The third edition to which is added a discourse of the philosophers stone, or universal medicine, discovering the cheats and abuses of those chymical pretenders.
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Author
Contributions
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Contributor
Publication
1697 - Printed and to be sold by most booksellers, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
114,000 words, Guess
Page Count
456 pages
Identifiers
- OCLC Control Number29167250
- Open LibraryOL45625067M
Alternate Titles
- Discourse of temperance, and the particular nature of all things
- Way to health, long life and happiness
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