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Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: : with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c. / Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when he was near an hundred years of age. And made English.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1722
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Credit: Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: : with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c. / Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when he was near an hundred years of age. And made English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Years before I wrote upon it ; that I would never have put Pen to Paper, ‘had I not known, by my own Expe- rience, that thts Practice was not im- poflible; that it is likewifé very ufe-. ful, and very prudent; and this was. the Motive which prevail’d upon me to publifh it. In aword, I have been the Occafion of a great many Perfons. practifing it, who find themfelves: the better for fo doing, fo that the Laws of Plato have no Refemblance to the Advices which I give. But fuch Perfons who deny themfelves no-. thing, that they may gratify their Senfe, do not care to give me their. Approbation, . However, I pity thefe Men, though they deferve for their , Intemperance, to be tormented in their old Days with a Complication of Diftempers, and to be the Vidims.: of their Pailions a whole Eternity. Lam, &e. CHAP.