Education
In 1652 he moved to London without telling his parents and apprenticed with a hatter.
( EARLY HISTORY OF MEDICINE, HEALTH & DISEASE. Imagine ho...)
EARLY HISTORY OF MEDICINE, HEALTH & DISEASE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. This series includes fascinating studies on the human brain from as early as the 16th century, as well as early studies on the physiological effects of tobacco use. Anatomy texts, medical treatises and wound treatments are also discussed, revealing the exponential development of medical theory and practice over more than two hundred years. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ The good houswife 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. Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703. Philotheos Physiologius = Thomas Tryon. Publication date conjectured by Wing. With two preliminary contents leaves and three final advertisement leaves. Text and register are continuous despite pagination. Creased, stained and tightly bound, with print show-through. 12, 96, 91-232, 6 p. London : printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, in the Holloway-Lane, near Shoreditch, 1685? Wing (2nd ed., 1994) / T3180 English Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library ++++ This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the original work or the micro-film from which the books were digitized. This can result in errors in reproduction. Possible imperfections include missing and blurred pages, poor pictures, markings and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1171351283/?tag=2022091-20
In 1652 he moved to London without telling his parents and apprenticed with a hatter.
Born in 1634 in Bibury near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, he had to work spinning wool as a child and received no education. As a teenager, he worked as a shepherd till the age of eighteen and managed to learn reading and writing in his spare time. He became an Anabaptist in 1654 under the influence of his master.
He liked the ascetic lifestyle of that congregation, but soon he found his own independent spiritual way after reading the writings of Jakob Böhme.
In 1657 he heard an inner voice, which he named the "Voice of Wisdom", encouraging him to become a vegetarian and to live on a frugal diet. In 1669 he returned to London and settled in Hackney.
In 1682 his inner voice told him to engage in writing and to publish books in order to propagate temperance and nonviolence. So in the last two decades of his life he published twenty-seven works on a wide range of subjects, including education, nutrition, abstinence from alcohol and tobacco and other health issues, and treatment of slaves.
At the same time he continued his hat trade and grew wealthy.
Some of his self-help books sold very well. His most widely read book was The Way to Health, published in 1691 as a second edition of Health"s Grand Preservative. Or, The Women"s Best Doctor (1682).
lieutenant inspired Benjamin Franklin to adopt vegetarianism.
Tryon’s writings also impressed playwright Aphra Behn, whose “On the Author of that Excellent Book Intitled The way to HEALTH, LONG LIFE, and HAPPINESS,” appears in Tryon"s 1697 Way to Health," and vegetarian poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Tryon died in 1703 and his Memoirs were published posthumously in 1705.
According to him, the main tenets of that faith were pacifism and non-violence to animals. Benevolence to all species and vegetarianism were prerequisites for spiritual progress and a possible restoration of Paradise.
He explicitly advocated animal rights.
Tryon was of the opinion that humans are a miniature image of the universe (microcosm). He voiced ecological and conservationist concerns about the pollution of rivers and the destruction of forests. He did not believe in reincarnation, but assumed that the souls of sinners take on the forms of vicious beasts in a nightmarish afterlife.
( EARLY HISTORY OF MEDICINE, HEALTH & DISEASE. Imagine ho...)