Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.

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Title: Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.
Author: Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
Publication: London :: Printed by T. S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be solde at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetestreete,; 1612.
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Subject terms: Health -- Early works to 1800.
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Shew me certaine remedies to prolong life.

TO liue for euer, and to become immortall here on earth, is a thing impossible: but to prolong a mans life, free from sicknesses, and to keepe the humours of the body in a temperate state, I verily beleeue it may be done, first by Gods permission, by obseruing a good dyet, and sometimes by vsing of some Treacle, Methridate, or such like in the Spring time and Autumne.