Directions for health, naturall and artificiall derived from the best physicians, as well moderne as antient. Diuided into 6 sections; comprehending 1 Ayre, fire, and water. 2 Food and nourishment. 3 Evacutions, as purgations, tobacco-taking, &c. 4 Infirmities, humours, and death. 5 Perturbations of the mind, & spiritual sicknesses. 6 Quarterly, monethly, and daily-dyet, with medicines to prolong life - Vaughan, William (Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the Vnicorne, 1633)
"Two treatises concerning the preservation of eye-sight" has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous. - "Two treatises" identified as STC 1198 on reel 620. - Appears at reel 943 (British Library copy) and at reel 620 (Cambridge University Library copy). - Dedication signed: William Vaughan. - Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and Cambridge University Library. - STC (2nd ed.), 24618. - The first leaf and the last leaf are blank. - The words "1 Ayre .. medicines to prolong life." are bracketed together on the title page. - Variant: imprint reads: London: Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Harison. 1633