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Directions for health, naturall and artificiall : derived from the best physicians, as well moderne as antient. Diuided into 6 sections; comprehending 1 Ayre, fire, and water. 2 Food and nourishment. 3 Evacutions, as purgations, tobacco-taking, &c. 4 Infirmities, humours, and death. 5 Perturbations of the mind, & spiritual sicknesses. 6 Quarterly, monethly, and daily-dyet, with medicines to prolong life.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640
- Standardized Title:
- Naturall and artificial directions for health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health--Early works to 1800.
- Health.
- Eye--Diseases--Early works to 1800.
- Eye.
- Physical Description:
- [8], 80, 79-169, [5], 38, [2] p.
- Edition:
- The seventh edition reviewed by the author. Whereunto is annexed two treatises of approved medicines for all diseases of the eyes, and preservation of the eye sight. The first written by Doctor Baily, sometimes of Oxford: the other collected out of those two famous physicians, Fernelius and Riolanus.
- Other Title:
- Naturall and artificial directions for health.
- Two treatises concerning the preservation of eye-sight.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the Vnicorne, 1633.
- Notes:
- Dedication signed: William Vaughan.
- The words "1 Ayre .. medicines to prolong life." are bracketed together on the title page.
- The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.
- "Two treatises concerning the preservation of eye-sight" has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous.
- Variant: imprint reads: London: Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Harison. 1633.
- "Two treatises" identified as STC 1198 on reel 620.
- Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and Cambridge University Library.
- Appears at reel 943 (British Library copy) and at reel 620 (Cambridge University Library copy).
- Photocopy of microfilm. (Early English books, 1475-1640)
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 24618.
- STC 1198.
- OCLC:
- 187707500
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