Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life : with the means of correcting a bad constitution / by Lewis Cornaro ; translated from the Italian.

Date:
1820
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Credit: Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life : with the means of correcting a bad constitution / by Lewis Cornaro ; translated from the Italian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    one may be temperance in another: but there arc few that have lived any time in the world, who arc not judges of their own constitutions, so far as to know what kinds and what propor- tions of food do best agree with them. Were I to consider ray readers as my patients, and to prescribe such a kind of temperance as is ac- commodated to all persons, and such as is par- ticularly suitable to our climate and way of living, I would copy the following rules of a very eminent pliysician ; Make your whole repast out of one dish. If you indulge in a second, avoid drinking any thing strong, till you have finisiicd your meal; at the same time, abstain from all sauces, or at least such as are not the most plain and simple. A man could not be well guilty of gluttony, if he stuck to these few obvious and easy rules. In the first case, there would be no variety of tastes to solicit his palate, and occasion excess; nor in the second, any artificial provocatives to relieve satiety, and create a false appetite. Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple : The first glass for my self the second for my friends, the third for good humour, and the fourth for mine enemies. But because It is imposiiiblc fcr cue who lives in the v.'orld to