Cogan, Thomas

1545?-1607.

The Haven of Health: Chiefly made for the Comfort of Students, and Consequently for All Those that have a Care of Their Health, Amplified Upon Five Wordes of Hippocrates. . . Labour, Meate, Drinke, Sleepe, Venus.

Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence with a short censure of the late sicknesse at Oxford. And now of late corrected and augmented. London: Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Bonham Norton, 1596. Page 273 ff misnumbered p. 272 ff. References: S.T.C. 5481.

Cogan has written an early health and nutrition book that also discusses the recent plague at Oxford. It encourages "labour" or exercise for good health.

Subjects: Hygiene; Nutrition; Plague.

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