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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    COUNARO unce are ten years more of life, especially a healthy life, and at a nuitiirer age ; when men become sensible of their progress in knowledge and virtue, which cannot attain to any degree of perfection before this period of life. Not to speak at present of many other ad- vantages, I shall barely mention that in regard to letters and the sciences, far the greatest »mumber of the best and most celebrated books extant were WTitten dfiring that period of life, and those ten years, which some make it their busines-s to undervalue, in order to give loose to their appetites. Be that as it will, I would not act like them. I rather coveted to live these ten years, and had I not done so I should never have finished these tracts, which I have composed in consequence of my having been sound and hearty during that period; and which I have the pleasure to think will be of service to others. These sensualists add, that a regular life is such as no man can lead. To this I answer, Galen, who was so great a phy- sician, led such a life, and chose it as the best jihysic. The same did Plato, Cicero, Isocrates, and so many other men of former times; whom, not to tire the reader, I shall forbear naming : and in our own days, Pope Paul Farnesc led it, and Cardinal Bcmbo : and it was for that rca-