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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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    them. We become Old, before we: have been able to tafte the Pleaftre off being Young ; and the Time which: ought to be the Summer of our Lives,, is often the beginning cf their Win-- ter. We foon perceive cur Strength: to fail, and Weaknefs to come on! apace, and decline, even before we: come to Perfection. On the contra-: ry, Sobriety maintains us in the na-: tural State wherein we ought to be:; Our Youth is lafting, and our Man-. hood attended with a Vigor that does: not begin to decay, “till after a gréat: many Years. A whole Century muft: be run out, before Wrinkles can be: formed on the Face, or sray Hairs; grow on the Head. This 1s: fo true, | that when Men were not addicted to) Voluptuoufnefs, they had ~ more:. Strength and Vivacity at Fourfcore, , than we have at prefent at Forty. ~O unhappy Italy! Doft thou not: perceive that Gluttony and Excefs, , robs thee every Year of more Inha-: _bitants, than Peftilence, War and Fa-» mine, could have deftroyed? Thy’ r true: