[The regiment of life
Subtitle: whereunto is added A treatise of the pestilence, with The boke of children
By: newly corrected and enlarged by T. Phayre]
Contributors: Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.; Houssemaine, Nicolas de, d. 1523.; Whitchurch, Edward, d. 1561.; Power, D'Arcy, Sir, 1855-1941, (bookplate); Power, D'Arcy, Sir, 1855-1941, (autograph)
Publisher: By Edwarde Whitchurche
Published: 1550
Place of publication: Imprinted at Lõdon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Plague -- Early works to 1800; Pediatrics -- Early works to 1800; Infants -- Care.
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: A treatise of the pestilence; The booke of children
Work titles: Sommaire et entretènement de vie.
Notes: "The regiment of life" is a translation, by Thomas Phayer, of a work by Jean Goeurot, known variously as "Sommaire et entretènement de vie", "L'entretenement de vie," "Summaire tres singulier de toute medecine & cyrurgie," and "La conservation de santé pour la commodité de la vie humaine."

"A treatise of the pestilence" is a translation, by Thomas Phayer, of "Régime contre la peste" by Nicolas de Houssemaine.

"The booke of children" is a compilation of several authors.

Signatures: A-2B8.

S.T.C. 11970.

RBSC copy: Closely trimmed.  Leaves A1 (t.p.) and A8 wanting; t.p. information supplied from ESTC.  Leaf 2B8 (colophon) bound at front. With the bookplate and autograph of D'Arcy Power.