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The Best and Easiest method of Preserving Uninterrupted health to extreme old age: Established upon the justest Laws of the animal oeconomy, and confirmed by the suffrages of the most celebrated practitioners among the antients and moderns. From a manuscript found in the library of an eminent physician lately deceased, and by him intended as a legacy to the world.
by An Eminent Physician, Lately Deceased
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- very good
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Pater-noster-Row 1748. 12mo. x, 204 pp. Recently bound in full brown calf. Raised bands to spine with maroon leather title label. New endpapers. Staining to prelims. Some worming, mostly affecting first ten leaves. Chapters include: The Necessity of a Laudable Mastication Evinced, Of the Various Kinds of Aliments, Practical Rules of Diet and Regimen, Of the Cold Bath, Of the Danger of Keeping the Body Too Warm, Of the Air, Of the Passions, Of Diseases Peculiar to the Different Classes of Tradesmen, etc. ESTC T189898 . Very Good. Full Calf. First Edition. 1748.
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- Bookseller
- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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- Title
- The Best and Easiest method of Preserving Uninterrupted health to extreme old age: Established upon the justest Laws of the animal oeconomy, and confirmed by the suffrages of the most celebrated practitioners among the antients and moderns. From a manuscript found in the library of an eminent physician lately deceased, and by him intended as a legacy to the world.
- Author
- An Eminent Physician, Lately Deceased
- Format/Binding
- Full Calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pater-noster-Row 1748
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1748
- Size
- 12mo.
- Keywords
- Method of Preserving Health ,Diet,Cookery,Diseases,Health,Hygiene,, Older People,Geriatric,Antiquarian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food and Drink; Antiquarian; Science and Medicine;
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Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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London, Greater London
About Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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- Calf
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- 12mo
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- Spine
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- Raised Band(s)
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