Tobias Venner
Tobias Venner (1577–1660) was an English physician and medical writer, born near
Biography
Venner completed his Bachelor of Arts and his Master of Arts degrees respectively in 1595 and 1603 at Oxford's
Tobias Venner died at Bath on 27 March 1660 at the age of 83, outliving all of his children and both wives. He was buried in Bath Abbey, where for many years a monument bore his name.[3]
Works
From 1620 to 1660, various editions of his Via Recta ad Vitam Longam were published in quarto format in London.[3] In addition to its endorsement of thermal waters at Bath), the book gave advice on hygiene and health as well as pursuing Galen's theory of humorism.[4] Venner explains how working on six "non-naturals" factors (environment, diet, sleep, exercise, excretion, and the passions of the mind) could affect the balance of the four humours, blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile, and thus enhance one's quality of life and longevity.[3] In regards to obesity, he is credited in Via Recta with being one of the first to refer to it as a societal and individual disease in an English language publication.[5] Tobias Venner also ventures into nutrition, for example by decrying beef and various fishes as indigestible, or by praising potato as delightful and nutritious, as well as providing a recipe for mead.[6]
In A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco (1621), Venner considers
Bibliography
- Via Recta ad Vitam Longam (1620)
- A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco (1621)
- The baths of Bathe (1628)
References
- ^ Pollard, Albert Frederick (1899). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- ^ Oxford Historical Society: Publications. Society at Clarendon Press. 1887. pp. 11–.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28192. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-0-521-49975-0.
- ^ Gilman, Sander L (2004). Fat Boys: A Slim Book. University of Nebraska Press. p. 18.
- ^ Carew Hazlitt, William (1902). Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ISBN 9781592134823. Archivedfrom the original on 5 March 2016.
- ^ "Smokescreen: the Victorian Vogue for Tobacco". University of Liverpool. 2002.
- ^ "'This vile custome': a history of tobacco's medical interpretations". Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.