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1. The Abernethian code of health & longevity, or, Every one's health in his own keeping: by the proper regulation of the stomach and bowels, in order to the attaining and securing those invaluable blessings : founded on the principles and practice of John Abernethy, Esq., F.R.S. : containing full rules for the application of this system, by suitable regimen, diet, and exercise : with an introductory view of the living functions of the animal economy, showing their mutual relation to each other, and how they severally depend on that part of the machine that influences and regulates the whole : concluding with some remarkable instances of longevity and its comparative estimate in different classes of society

Publication:
New York : Minuse, 1831
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Dyspepsia -- prevention & control
Longevity

4. The art of invigorating and prolonging life: by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep &c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ; suaviter in modo, fortiter in re : to which is added, the pleasure of making a will ; finis coronat opus

Author(s):
Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827
Publication:
Lexington, Ky. : Printed by W. W. Worsley, 1823
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Longevity
Health Behavior
Digestive System Diseases -- prevention & control

12. 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

14. An epistle to a friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness: and prolonging the life of man to its natural period : being a summary view of inconsiderate and useless habits that derange the system of nature, thereby causing premature old age and death : with some thoughts on the best means of preventing and overcoming disease

Author(s):
Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Publication:
Philadelphia : From the press of the late R. Aitken, ... by Jane Aitken, 1803
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Longevity

18. Extreme old age: the centenarians and nonogenarians of the metropolis, errors of the census, foreign vs. native longevity--Ireland leads the list, the old folk at home, interviews with ninety and nine New Yorkers of ninety years and over, milestones of memory, the revolution, George Washington, Napoleon I, the Rebellion of '98, amid great-great-grandchildren, indifference to hygienic surroundings--wonderful vitality

Publication:
[New York?] : New York Herald, 1882
Subject(s):
Longevity
Aged, 80 and over
New York City

20. Hufeland's art of prolonging life

Author(s):
Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1762-1836
Publication:
Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1870
Subject(s):
Health
Longevity

24. Key notes of health and a century of life: with simple, practical, and inexpensive methods of treating diseases of the heart, stomach, and kidneys and other chronic and nervous affections : the deadening influences of which usurp the best years of life, and too frequently cause sudden and premature death, giving the up-to-date methods of antidoting and curing the whiskey and tobacco habits, with many valuable formulae never before made public

Author(s):
Scott, Chas. Winfield (Charles Winfield), 1840-
Publication:
Boston, Mass. : C.W. Scott Jr. & Co., 1895
Subject(s):
Health Behavior
Drug Therapy
Longevity

29. Long life, and how to reach it

Author(s):
Richardson, Joseph Gibbons, 1836-1886, author
Publication:
Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1879
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Longevity

32. 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

36. Old age: its diseases and its hygiene

Author(s):
Yandell, Lunsford P. (Lunsford Pitts), 1805-1878, author
Publication:
Louisville, Ky. : [publisher not identified], 1878
Subject(s):
Aging
Longevity

39. Six lectures on the functions of the lungs: and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to a hundred years : also a treatise on medicated inhalation

Author(s):
Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Publication:
New-York : S.S. Fitch & Co., 1859
Subject(s):
Lung -- physiology
Lung Diseases
Health Behavior
Longevity

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