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A treatise of health and long life, with the sure means of attaining it, in two books. / The first by Leonard Lessius, the second by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian: translated into English, by Timothy Smith, apothecary.

  • Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.
Date:
1743
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of health and long life, with the sure means of attaining it, in two books. / The first by Leonard Lessius, the second by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian: translated into English, by Timothy Smith, apothecary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In anfwer to this, I fay, That how clofely to- ever we ought at all Times to adhere to the ap- Proved: Maxims and’ {tated Rules of Phyficians ; yet in this Particular, however, an Over- precife- nefs, or Scrupuloufnefs, isnot material. For when there isan Opportunity.of Compliance wanting, we need not be extremely folicitous concerning it. For in cafe we find Neceffity of a.drier Kind of Diet inWinter, or long continued moiit Weea- ther, which cannot readily be procured ; this is an Inconvenience, which may eafily be remedied by increafing our Stint of Bread, or by leflening that of our Drink, or other moift Nourifhment. For the Abundance of. Liquor, or other moift Food, which in a dry Summer feems moftly be- neficia], will (if continued many Days together, when once the Air is grown raw and cold) in all probability even prove prejudicial; becaufe it is many Times apt to occafion Diftillations, and to produce Coughs, and Hoar{neffes of the Lungs: Andagain, on the otherhand, when a moitter Kind of Diet feems moft requifite, the Portion ef our Liquor maybe augmented by diluting our Wine with a little more Water; or, what is as well, we may drink clear, Small-Beer of a due Age, which isof itfelf alone fufficient to moift- en.and refrefh the Body. Ino where remember, tothe beft of my Knowledge, that the holy Fa- thers.of old made any Account at all of this. Di- verfity of Seafons; but that they, appointed. one and the fame Meafure of the fame Kinds of Vic- tuals annually to be: obferved among them; and in this Method of Diet did they conftantly and punctually perfevere, and yet mastitis so | they