Letters to a sick friend containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health. By J. M.
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- Title
- Letters to a sick friend containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health. By J. M.
- Author
- Marlow, John, 1648-1695.
- Publication
- London :: printed by J.A. for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, near Mercers Chappel,
- 1682.
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- Subject terms
- Health promotion -- Early works to 1800.
- Health -- Early works to 1800.
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- Cite this Item
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"Letters to a sick friend containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health. By J. M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51992.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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The PUBLISHERS EPISTLE TO THE READER.
THese ingenuous and ex∣cellent Letters being sent me at several times, and upon par∣ticular Occasions, from the City of London, into the Countrey, I thought them very well deserving to be exposed to publick View, as containing most necessary Obser∣vations
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tending to Health and long Life, with the Way to ren∣der Remedies Effectual: A Theme I do not remember I ever saw in Print before. The Subject is Great and Noble, and the Style is smooth and pleasant, and accommodate to the Genius of this Age: And I am of Opinion, that if the Divine and Physical Intimations given in these Letters, were improved to Practice, the Ʋse of Remedies would very seldom fail of success, and most men might arrive unto a very great Age, and their pas∣sage through this World would be much more Easie and Comforta∣ble, than which nothing can be more desirable. I heartily wish
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they may be as Delightful and Ʋseful to thee in Print, as they were to me and some others in Manuscript; and then I am re∣compenced for the Publication, and shall more easily obtain the Au∣thors Pardon for thus Reading them aloud to the whole World.
T. C.