The cure of old age, and preservation of youth. By Roger Bacon, a Franciscan frier. Translated out of Latin; with annotations, and an account of his life and writings. By Richard Browne, M.L. Coll. Med. Lond. Also a physical account of the tree of life, by Edw. Madeira Arrais. Translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand.

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Edité par printed for Tho. Flesher at the Angel and Crown, and Edward Evets at the Green Dragon, in St Pauls Church-yard, London, 1683

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The first English edition of 'De retardandis senectutis accidentibus et sensibus conservandis,” which was first published in 1590. Bacon’s book describes the effects of age, and how to both prevent and reverse them. Sounding distinctly more modern, Bacon states that a careful daily regimen is necessary in order to maintain health and prevent illness. He identifies many causes of aging in diets and daily activities, such as eating fish, drinking too much water, frequent ‘sports of Venus’ (i.e. sexual activity), immoderate blood-letting, drunkenness, and frequent washing. In other areas of the book, Bacon identifies certain foods, herbs, and recipes that affect a variety of physical features, such as dying grey hairs, and removing wrinkles. In the second work, Arrais, the court physician to Juan IV of Portugal (d. 1656), discusses the properties of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden as a source of long life, and relates it to many contemporary or ancient natural remedies. It also identifies some medicinal discoveries, like opium, and refers to recently discovered non-European medical practices of the Americas and the Near East. First English edition. Collated complete. Signatures: A8,a8.b4,B-S8,T4 [40],156,[6],108, [8],[2 ads]. Full calf binding with blind tooling on boards, pitted and scuffed, with upper board detached, spine with raised bands and morocco label with stamped gilt title to spine. Interior near fine with very few flaws, including small paper losses to three leaves in outer text block margins not affecting text (P8, R4, and S1). With two bookplates on front pastedown: James J. Waring, the first full-time Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and William Lord North of Carthage and Baron Grey of Rolleston, dated 1703. Old, typed book catalog description pasted on last blank.…

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The cure of old age, and preservation of youth. By Roger Bacon, a Franciscan frier. Translated out of Latin; with annotations, and an account of his life and writings. By Richard Browne, M.L. Coll. Med. Lond. Also a physical account of the tree of life, by Edw. Madeira Arrais. Translated likewise out of Latin by the same hand.
Auteur
Roger Bacon
Éditeur
printed for Tho. Flesher at the Angel and Crown, and Edward Evets at the Green Dragon, in St Pauls Church-yard, London
Année de publication
1683
État de l'article
Assez bon
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
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1 livre

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