Le gouuernement necessaire a chacun pour viure longuement en santé
Subtitle: Dedié au roy tres-Christien de France et de Nauarre, Henry IIII
By: Par Nicolas Abraham, s[ieu]r de La Framboisiere, conseiller & medecin ordinaire de Sa Majesté
Contributors: Passerat, Jean, 1534-1602
Publisher: Chez Michel Sonnius, ruë Sainct Iacques, à l'Escu de Basle.
Published: 1600
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Nutrition; Health; Diet; Personal Beauty
Other titles: Govvernement necessaire a chacvn povr vivre longvement en santé; Govvernement de La Framboisiere.
Notes: Colophon at foot of p. [5], 2nd count, reads: Parisiis, Apud Michaelem Sonnivm, via Iacobaea, sub scuto Basiliensi.

"Le govvernement propre a chacvn selon sa complexion", p. 167-199, has divisional title page.

"Le govvernement des dames", p. 201-246, has divisional title page.

"Le govvernement convenable a chaqve aage", p. 247-293, has divisional title page.

"Le gouvvernement reqvis en chacvn pays", p. 295-320, has divisional title page and contains "Comment il se faut gouuerner, en l'Asie, l'Afrique, & l'Amerique" on p. 317-320.

"Le govvernement reqvis en chacvne saison", p. 321-356, has divisional title page.

"Le govvernement reqvis en temps de peste, povr se garder de sa tyrannie", p. 357-383, has divisional title page.

"Le govvernement des personnes svbiectes a qvelqve maladie particuliere", p. 385-414, has divisional title page.

Signatures: A-2C⁸ (A1, L4, N4, N5, Q4, T3, T4, X1, Z3, 2A8, 2B1 versos blank) 2D²

Woodcut printer's device on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Engraved portrait of the author framed within a border of strawberries signed by I. Passerat and T.de Leufe, dated, 1600, appears on p. [28], 1st count.

"Table des medecins, philosophes, astrologues, geographes, poetes, & autres ecriuains, Grecs, Latins, Arabes & François, tant anciens que modernes, desquels l'autheur s'est aidé en cest oeuvre": p. 19, 1st count.

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, I:3634.

Purchase; 2016; 17-019.

Text primarily in French with prefatory and ending material in Latin and Greek.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full limp vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: 1624 pars mea Deus A. S. V. I. D.: ms. inscription on recto of front endpaper.