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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50458	Vita sana & longa the preservation of health and prolongation of life proposed and proved : in the due observance of remarkable præcautions, and daily practicable rules, relating to body and mind, compendiously abstracted from the institutions and law of nature / by E. Maynwaringe ...	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1669 (1669)	Wing M1519; ESTC R41734	56,870	172

Vita Sana Longa. THE Preservation of Health AND Prolongation of Life Proposed and proved In the due observance of Remarkable Praecautions And daily practicable Rules Relating to Body and Mind compendiously abstracted from the Institutions and Law of Nature By E. Maynwaringe Dr. in Physick Non accepimus brevem vitam sed fecimus Senec. LONDON Printed by J. D. Sold by the Booksellers 1669. EVERARDUS · MAYNWARINGE · MEDICINAE · DOCTOR · AETATIS · SUAE · 38 · 1668. The Preface HAving some Years since put forth a rough draught or indigested Notions upon this Subject with intentions then to revise and finish at more leasure when opportunity was afforded me yet other Subjects and business so put me by as I thought not at all to reassume this matter again nor make any farther prosecution But being informed by several that this Subject and the managing of it was acceptable to many and that no Copies was remaining with the Book-sellers but clear sold off and yet inquired for but not to be had I was sollicited and desired to reprint it for the publick good and satisfaction of those that desire to be regulated in the course of their lives and to be informed the right way for preserving of Health and prolonging of Life Considering then that Health and long-life are the two great desiderable enjoyments and perfection of Humane Nature coveted and aimed at by all and that I might not be taxed as refractory and obstinate refusing to gratifie such reasonable Desires for the acquiring those laudable ends I was hereby moved to set upon the Work again for improvement and finishing what I had left imperfect and defective in the former Tract But upon revising those sheets much came in my mind to add and to alter so that little of the old stock would remain I then thought it best to lay a new foundation or Platform of Title that I might not be ingaged to the Order Rule or Matter of the old Structure but have full liberty to manage the Work as my genius should lead me Accordingly and with this freedom I have here proceeded to draw forth and present to you this delectable Theam of Health and Long-life with the most profitable advantages the Subject imports and ease of acquiring your capacities will admit Whosoever therefore desires to live long to see their Childrens Children to preserve their youth strength and beauty to be free from molesting pains and loathsome Diseases to preserve their senses and enjoy the perfection of mind to the extremity of Age let them conform and be obedient to the Hygiastick Laws and Rules hereafter prescribed and they may expect what is here proposed for their reward Nor shall I exact and require of you an irkesome strictness or Lessian preciseness to eat and drink by weight and measure but a reasonable observance suteable and well agreeing with a sober rational person not restraining convenient liberty and the lawful pleasure of life Nor can a regular course of life be thought troublesome as a difficult and hard restraint but most pleasant and free Quod assuescenti primum difficile non erit assueto except to those accustomed to the contrary and the leaving of those ill customs is the difficulty but the Rules injoyned be facile and easie to observe And having once acquired a good habit and constant use to return to an irregular intemperate living would be a far greater burthen and irkesome if enjoyned and imposed then the declining and deserting a destructive course for a laudable wholesome regimen most consonant to a rational Creature Qui medicè vivit sine medicis diu vivet Qui non medicè vivit cum medicis saepe sed non diu erit He that lives by Rule and wholesome Precepts takes the best course of Preventing Physick he 's a Physician to himself and needs not the help of others but they that live carelesly and irregularly contemning Physical Rules as unnecessary Observations shall be constrained to Physical Remedies as necessary helps and must often resign into the hands of Physicians E. M. LONDON From my House in Clarkenwell-Close Licensed August the 4th 1669. ROGER L'ESTRANGE ERRATA PAge 5. line 19. read illae p. 21. l. 17. immethodically p. 27. positivè in the Margent p. 39. l. 13. parts p. 36. l. 17. aromatical p. 72. inimicum in the Margent p. 151. l. 29. quis In the second Part. Page 24. line 27. read eradicate p. 30. l. 14. radiant p. 32. l. 15. deobstruct Long Life AND Means to attain it Section I. IN the Primitive Age of the World mans life was accounted to be about 1000 Years but after the Flood the Life of Man was abreviated half Mans Age shortned and none then attained to the tearm of the first Age except Noah who lived 950 Years and after three Generations from the Flood their lives were reduced to a fourth of the Primitive Age and their lives ordinarily exceeded not two hundred Years About Moses his time the Age of Man was yet shorter commonly not exceeding 120 Years Mans Age 120 years which also was his Age when he died yet we find upon Record in Sacred Writ and from Ecclesiastical Writers that after Moses some lived 240 and 260 yet that was rare but more frequently 120 which was then the common Age. Now the Age of Man is reduced to half that Mans Age 60 years 60 or 70 years we count upon But although in general we find this gradual declension and abreviation of mans Life in the several Ages of the World yet must understand it was not equally so in all parts of the World together but places and climates and manner of living of a people cause much difference in the protraction of their lives Age of man differ in several places that at the same time some people of peculiar places were longer lived by a third or fourth part then others of another Climate or Region as the Northern People and in colder Countreys they are longer lived then in the hot Climates and this by reason of the heat that opens the Pores and causeth so great a transpiration that exsiccates and enervates the body but a cooler Air prohibits and restrains such immoderate transpiration and exhaustion keeps the spirits vigorous and united and preserves the alimentory Juyces of the body from too frequent and immoderate exsudation If we examine into the Ages of other Creatures we find little difference in their durations Other Creatares keep their Age. to what they were in the Primitive Times and infancy of the World who keeping to the Rule of Nature implanted in them do preserve their Beings and degenerate little from the integrity of their durations allotted to them from the beginning Now why mans days should be thus abreviated and shortned from what they were and the tearm of his life reduced to so short a continuance gradually declining in the several Ages of the World is fit matter to inquire into