The way to health, long life and happiness: or, A discourse of temperance, and the particular nature of all things requisite for the life of man
Subtitle: as, all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise, &c. with special directions how to use each of them to the best advantage of the body and mind : shewing from the true ground of nature, whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them : to which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs : with several other remarkable and most useful observations, very necessary for all families : the whole treatise displaying the most hidden secrets of philosophy, and made easie and familiar to the meanest capacities by various examples and demonstrances : the like never before published
By: communicated to the world for a general good, by Thomas Tryon, student in physick
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Edition: The third edition to which is added a discourse of the philosophers stone, or universal medicine, discovering the cheats and abuses of those chymical pretenders.
Publisher: Printed and to be sold by most booksellers
Published: 1697
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Hygiene; Early works to 1800; Toleration; Alchemy
Other titles: Discourse of temperance, and the particular nature of all things; Way to health, long life and happiness
Notes: Title within double ruled borders.

Issued with: "A dialogue between an East-Indian Brackmanny, or heathen philosopher, and a French gentleman, concerning the present affairs in Europe, p. 1-15; A translation of part of Ovid's Metaphosis against eating of flesh, p. 16-17; A discourse on the philosopher's stone ... p. 18-24.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700, T3202

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R185767