Tessa Storey is a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2009, she has been working as a research associate on the Wellcome funded research project which has made this book possible. She has published a number of chapters and articles on early modern Rome, as well as a book, Carnal Commerce in Counter Reformation Rome (2008).Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and specialises in the history of medicine, gender and material culture. Her publications include the books Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy (1995) and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, Masculinities (2007), and the edited volumes Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1999), Spaces, Objects, and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (2008), Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe (2009) and A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family vol. 3, The Early Modern Age (2010).

the book provides a fascinating and incomparably rich and nuanced contribution to our knowledge of the pursuit of health in the domestic environment, in the process instilling meaning and functionality into the everyday objects of the time.

• Acknowledgements ; List of Figures and Illustrations ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Print and a Culture of Prevention ; 2. Practices of Healthy Living: the Sources ; 3. Worrying About the Air ; 4. A Good Night's Sleep ; 5. Gentle Exercise and Genteel Living ; 6. The Well-Tempered Man ; 7. 'Salute' (Cheers)! Drinking to Your Health ; 8. Excretions as Excrements: the Hygiene of the Body ; Conclusions ; Bibliography

Tessa Storey is a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2009, she has been working as a research associate on the Wellcome funded research project which has made this book possible. She has published a number of chapters and articles on early modern Rome, as well as a book, Carnal Commerce in Counter Reformation Rome (2008).Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and specialises in the history of medicine, gender and material culture. Her publications include the books Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy (1995) and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, Masculinities (2007), and the edited volumes Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1999), Spaces, Objects, and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (2008), Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe (2009) and A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family vol. 3, The Early Modern Age (2010).

the book provides a fascinating and incomparably rich and nuanced contribution to our knowledge of the pursuit of health in the domestic environment, in the process instilling meaning and functionality into the everyday objects of the time.

• Acknowledgements ; List of Figures and Illustrations ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Print and a Culture of Prevention ; 2. Practices of Healthy Living: the Sources ; 3. Worrying About the Air ; 4. A Good Night's Sleep ; 5. Gentle Exercise and Genteel Living ; 6. The Well-Tempered Man ; 7. 'Salute' (Cheers)! Drinking to Your Health ; 8. Excretions as Excrements: the Hygiene of the Body ; Conclusions ; Bibliography

Tessa Storey is a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2009, she has been working as a research associate on the Wellcome funded research project which has made this book possible. She has published a number of chapters and articles on early modern Rome, as well as a book, Carnal Commerce in Counter Reformation Rome (2008).Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and specialises in the history of medicine, gender and material culture. Her publications include the books Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy (1995) and Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy: Identities, Families, Masculinities (2007), and the edited volumes Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1999), Spaces, Objects, and Identities in Early Modern Italian Medicine (2008), Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe (2009) and A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family vol. 3, The Early Modern Age (2010).

the book provides a fascinating and incomparably rich and nuanced contribution to our knowledge of the pursuit of health in the domestic environment, in the process instilling meaning and functionality into the everyday objects of the time.

• Acknowledgements ; List of Figures and Illustrations ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Print and a Culture of Prevention ; 2. Practices of Healthy Living: the Sources ; 3. Worrying About the Air ; 4. A Good Night's Sleep ; 5. Gentle Exercise and Genteel Living ; 6. The Well-Tempered Man ; 7. 'Salute' (Cheers)! Drinking to Your Health ; 8. Excretions as Excrements: the Hygiene of the Body ; Conclusions ; Bibliography