Author Bibliography (in progress)
Tryon, Thomas (1634-1703)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Thomas Tryon was born on 6 September 1634 in Bibury, England and died on 21 August 1703 in Hackney, London. He was a hatter and sugar merchant, who is remembered as the author of conduct and advice manuals that promote Temperance, health and nutrition, the abolition of slavery, environmentalism, veg*nism, and animal rights. According to Benjamin Franklin in his Autobiography, it was reading Tryon's The Way to Health (1691) - the second edition of Health's Grand Preservative; or, The Women's Best Doctor (1682) - that encouraged his experiment in veg*nism.
IMAGE: Engraver Robert White, c. 1703. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
PUBLICATIONS
England's Grandeur, and Way to Get Wealth: or, Promotion of trade made easy and lands advanced; beneficial to particular persons, and to the kingdom in general; wherein many thousand of indigent poor families may be employed; breaches made in our trade by the French, Portuguese, Genoese, Swedes, Dutch and Danes, demonstrated. Furnishing funerals by undertakers, making buttons and shoe-buckles of various sorts of metals, a great detriment to weavers of tape, cotton, ferrit, and silk-riband, and in short to all other trades, the West India trade discouraged, ... the prejudice of trade by strangers, that are lodgers and inmates only, who by their monopolizing ways, have got estates, and then bid farewel to England, the cause of the rent of houses falling, the reasons why great taxes cannot easily be paid, laying taxes on the back and belly, the best way to raise money, which will hurt neither rich nor poor, provided navigation and free circulation of trade be maintained, and merchants encouraged. [London]: Sold by J. Harris, at the Harrow, and G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little Britain, 1699.
Friendly advcie [sic] to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies [electronic resource] : in three parts ... / by Philotheos Physiologus. London : Printed by Andrew Sowle ..., [1684].
The Good House-Wife Made a Doctor, or, Health's choice and sure friend being a plain way of nature's own prescribing to prevent and cure most diseases incident to men, women, and children by diet and kitchin-physick only : with some remarks on the practice of physick and chymistry. 1682. London: Printed for H.N. and T.S. and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, 1692.
Healths Grand Preservative: or The Womens Best Doctor. A treatise, shewing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh without a due observation of time, or nature of the creature which hath proved very destructive to the health of many. Together, with a rational discourse of the excellency of herbs, highly approved of by our ancestors in former times. And the reasons why men now so much desire the flesh more than other food. A work highly fit to be persued and observed by all that love their health, and particularly necessary to the female sex, on whose good or ill constitution the health and strength, or sickness and weakness of all [cropped]sterity does in a more especial manner depend. London: printed for the author, and are to be sold by Lang[ley] Curtis near Fleet-Bridge, 1682.
The Knowledge of a Man's Self the Surest Guide to the True Worship of God, and Good Government of the Mind and Body. 1703. London: Printed for Tho. Bennet, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1704.
The Merchant, Citizen and Country-man's Instructor. London: Printed for E. Harris, and G. Conyers, 1701.
ECCO (Eighteenth century collections online). Subscription access.
A New Method of Educating Children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them, during their younger years : shewing that they are capable, at the age of three years, to be caused to learn languages, and most arts and sciences ... also, what methods is to be used by breeding women, and what diet is most proper for them, and their children ... London: Printed for J. Salusbury; and J. Harris, 1695.
A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness : being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only. To which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day. London : Printed for George Conyers, 1693.
A Treatise of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks, of the Preparation of Food, the Excellency of Good Airs, and the Benefits of Clean Sweet Beds. Also of the Generation of Bugs, and Their Cure. To Which Is Added, a Short Discourse of the Pain in the Teeth, Shewing What Cause It Does Chiefly Proceed, and Also How to Prevent It. 1682. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by L. Curtis, 1682.
A Treatise of Dreams & Visions. [London]: [Andrew Sowle], 1689.
Tryon's letters, domestick and foreign, to several persons of quality: occasionally distributed in subjects, viz., philosophical, theological, and moral. London, Printd for G. Conyers [etc.] 1700.
Tryon's letters upon several occasions ... London: Printed for Geo. Conyers and Eliz. Harris, 1700.
The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, or, A discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisit for the life of man ... : to which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... the like never before published / communicated to the world for a general good, by Philotheos Physiologus. 1691. London: Printed and sold by A. Sowle ..., [1683?]
Note: second edition of Health's Grand Preservative.
Wisdom's Dictates, or, Aphorisms & Rules, Physical, Moral, and Divine, for Preserving the Health of the Body, and the Peace of the Mind to which is added a bill of fare of seventy five noble dishes of excellent food, for exceeding those made of fish or flesh ... London: Printed for Tho. Salisbury ..., 1691.
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