A guide to health through the various stages of life : Wherein are Explained, I. The different Degrees and Changes of Age, the principal and inevitable Causes of Old Age, and finally of our Dissolution; with a Chronological and Historical brief Account of long Lives from before the Flood to this present Time. II. The Nature, Properties, Qualities, and Influence of Air. Of Aliments; the Choice of them; their Power upon Human Bodies, with their good and bad Effects. Of Sleeping and Waking; of Motion and Rest; of Retention and Excretion; and of the Possions of the Mind. III. Of the Definitions, Diagnosticks, Prognosticks, and Curative Indications, both Medicinal and Dietetical, of Acute and Chronical Diseases incident to Human Bodies; with the Nature and Use of Bathing and Frictions. The whole illustrated with useful annotations, methodically and succinctly digested, and confirmed by the Authority of the most celebrated Authors, both Ancient and Modern. By Bernard Lynch, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Bernard, d. 1745.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Early works to 1800.

Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii,480p. )

Other Title:

Guide to health through the various stages of life

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, and sold by Mrs. Cooper in Pater Noster-Row; Mr. Meadows in Cornhill; Mr. Hawkins near the Temple-Gate, Fleet-Street; Mr. Needham near Chancery-Lane End, Holborn; and at Mr. Jackson's, in St. James's-Street, 1744.

Notes:

With a list of subscribers.

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T120530.

OCLC:

642323057