Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 / Subjects: Longevity / Dates by Range: 1750-1799 - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine Search Results

Start Over Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖ Subjects Longevity ✖ Dates by Range 1750-1799 ✖

1. An easy way to prolong life: by a little attention to what we eat and drink : containing a chemical analysis : or, an enquiry into the nature and properties of all kinds of food : how far they are wholesome, and agree with the different constitutions : with some directions respecting our way of living : collected from the authorities of some of our ablest physicians

Author(s):: Trusler, John, 1735-1820
Publication:: Printed at Dover : By Samuel Bragg, Jun., for Wm. T. Clap, in Boston, MDCCXCVI [1796]
Subject(s):: Diet
Exercise
Longevity

2. Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life: with means of correcting a bad constitution

Author(s):: Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566
Publication:: Philadelphia : Reprinted for the Rev. M. L. Weems, by Parry Hall, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):: Health Behavior
Longevity

3. Longevity: being an account of various persons, who have lived to an extraordinary age, with several curious particulars respecting their lives ; the whole comprising an abridgement of longevity, as far as history extends in every quarter of the world, from the creation to the year 1792 ; authenticated by referential notes from authors of veracity

Author(s):: Hoffman, Christian.
Publication:: New-York : Printed and sold by Jacob S. Mott, no. 7. Vesey-Street, 1798
Subject(s):: Bible
Longevity

4. Essays, literary, moral & philosophical

Author(s):: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas & Samuel F. Bradford ..., 1798
Subject(s):: Education
Sociology
Longevity