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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    surer of a long one, than a young man of tlie best constitution who leads a disorderly life. It is not to be doubted, however, that a man blessed with a sound constitution may, by living temperately, expect to live longer than one whose constitution is not so good; and that God and nature can dispose matters so, that a man shall bring into the world with him so sound a constitution as to live- fong and healthy without observing such strict rules; and then die in a very advanced agc^ through the mere resolution of his elementary parts ; as was the case in Venice, of the Procurator, Thomas Con- tarini; and in Padua, of the Cavalier Antonio Capo di Vacca. But it is not one man in a hundred tliousand, that so much can be said of. Ifotliers have a mind to livelong and healthy, and die without sickness of body and mind, but by mere dissolution, they must sub mit to live regularly, since they cannot other- wise expect to enjoy the fruits of such a life, which are almost infinite in number, and each of them in particular of infinite value. For as such regularity keeps the humours of the body clean and temperate, it suffers no vapours to ascend from the stomach to the head; hence the brain of him who lives in that manner enjoys such a constant serenity, that he ia