The WAY To HEALTH, LONG LIFE And HAPPINESS, or, A Discourse of Temperance and The particular Nature of all things requisit 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. Communicated to the World for a general Good, by Philotheos Physiologus.
London: Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle, 1683. 1st Edition (Bitting, pp 466- 467; Cagle 1029; ESTC R10677; Lowndes, p. 2716; Oxford, p. 43; Watt AUTHORS, 917; Wing T3200). [14], 669, [3 (adverts)] pp. P. 520 mispaginated as 502; 526 as 520; 527 as 526. Tables, pp. 520 - 526. 8vo: [a]^4 [-a1, an advert] b^4 B - 3U^4 [3X]^4 3Y^4 - 4Q^4. X2 missigned as K2. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2". Period full brown calf, with later rebacking to style. Maroon leather title label in second compartment. General binding wear. Early ownership signatures to ffep lined out. B4 with paper flaw at bottom, just affecting a couple words, but not the sense thereof. Rear paste-down with pencil notes. Very Good. Item #44531
"Thomas Tryon's most influential work, inspired by Pythagoreanism and Hinduism as well as Jacob Bohme and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, advocates vegetarianism and a healthy diet by careful selection of food and drink as a way to live a long and happy life. He promotes animal welfare, ecology and pacifism and a belief that there was one original true religion of mankind."
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