VENNER TOBIAS Via Recta ad Vitam Longam; or A Plaine Philoso

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VENNER, TOBIAS. Via Recta ad Vitam Longam; or, A Plaine Philosophicall Demonstration of the Nature, Faculties, and Effects of All Such Things as by Way of Nourishments make for the Preservation of Health, with Divers Necessary Dietetical Observations . . . Whereunto is annexed a Necessary and Compendious Treaties of the Famous Baths of Bathe. [12], 226; [4], 24 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; contents toned, light marginal dampstaining through much of volume, restoration in outer corners of first and last few leaves. London: Felix Kyngston for Richard Moore, 1628

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Third edition of a guide to health maintenance originally published in 1620. "The book discussed how the six 'non-naturals' (environment, diet, sleep, exercise, excretion, and the passions of the mind) affected the balance of the four humours (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile)" (ODNB). STC 121226.