MPIWG

The very oldest early moderns probably reached ages not see very different to the oldest old in our own times but there were very very many fewer of them relative tot he population. Nevertheless, a range of books instructed readers on how to manage themselves and their environment so as to ensure living to a ripe old age.


There are 37 books tagged with this term.
 
Last Name First Name Title Date Sort descending
Wingfield Henry A compendious or short treatise, gathered out of the chyefe and principall authors of phisycke… 1551
Newton Thomas The olde mans dietarie. A worke no lesse learned then necessary for the preseruation of… 1586
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam, or A plaine philosophical discourse of the nature, faculties, and… 1620
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam, or A plaine philosophicall discovrse of the nature, faculties, and… 1622
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam: or, A plaine philosphicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and… 1628
Lessius Leonardus Hygiasticon: Or, The right course of preserving life and health unto extream old age: together… 1634
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam. 1637
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam. 1637
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam, or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and… 1638
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and… 1638
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam, or, A plain philosophicall discourse of the nature, faculties, and… 1638
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A treatise wherein the right way and best manner… 1650
Starkey George Natures explication and Helmont’s vindication. Or A short and sure way to a long and… 1658
Gayton Edmund The art of longevity, or, A diæteticall institution. Written by Edmund Gayton, Bachelor in Physick… 1659
Venner Tobias Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, A treatise wherein the right way and best manner… 1660
Starkey George Via ad vitam, being a short and sure vvay to a long life. Or Helmont… 1661
Helmont Jean Baptiste van Oriatrike or, Physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed & rectified… 1662
Maynwaringe Everard Tutela sanitatis sive Vita protracta. The protection of long life, and detection of its brevity… 1663
Maynwaringe Everard Tutela sanitatis sive Vita protracta. The protection of long life, and detection of its brevity… 1664
Maynwaringe Everard Useful discoveries, and practical observations, in some late remarkable cures of the scurvy. By E… 1668
Maynwaringe Everard Vita sana & longa. The preservation of health, and prolongation of life. Proposed and proved. In… 1669
Maynwaringe Everard Vita sana & longa. The preservation of health, and prolongation of life. Proposed and proved. In… 1670
Lessius Leonardus The temperate man, or The right way of preserving life and health, together, with soundness… 1678
Tryon Thomas The way to health, long life and happiness, or, A discourse of temperance and the… 1683
Bacon Roger The cure of old age, and preservation of youth 1683
Tryon Thomas Monthly observations for the preserving of health, with a long and comfortable life, in this… 1688
Tryon Thomas Monthly observations for the preserving of health, with a long and comfortable life. With proper… 1691
Tryon Thomas The way to health, long life and happiness: or, A discourse of temperance. and the… 1691
Tryon Thomas The way to health, long life, and happiness: or, A discourse of temperance, and the… 1697
Tryon Thomas The way to health, long life and happiness: or, a discourse of temperance, and the… 1697