Hermippus redivivus, or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including, a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed; supported by numerous authorities. The whole interspersed with a great variety of remarkable, and well-attested relations / [Anon].

Johann Heinrich Cohausen

Date:: 1744

Credit: Hermippus redivivus, or, the sage's triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including, a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed; supported by numerous authorities. The whole interspersed with a great variety of remarkable, and well-attested relations / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ ] “ Therefore it muft needs be, that this Abbre¬ viation is accidental, and may consequently be “ either wholly repair’d or at leafb in part. But if sc we would but make Enquiry into the accidental tc Caufe of this Corruption, we fhould find, it nei¬ ther from Heaven, nor from ought but want of “ a Regimen of Health. For in as much, as the Fathers are Corrupt, they beget Children of a corrupt Complexion and Compolition; and “ their Children, from the fame Caufe, are cor- “ rupt themfelves, and fo Corruption is derived from Father to Son, till abbreviation of Life prevails by Succefiion. Yet for all this, it does ec not follow, that it fhall always be cut fhorter “ and fhorter, becaufe a Term is fet in human Kind, that Men fhould at the mod: of their “ Years, arrive at fourfcore; but more is their “ Regimen, which confifts in thefe Things, Meat and Drink, Sleep and Waking, Motion and “ Reft, Evacuation and Retention, Air, and the “ Paffions of the Mind. For if a Man would “ obferve this Regimen from his Nativity, he might live as long as his Nature aftumed from his Parents would permit, and might be led to the utmoft Term of Nature, lapfed from original Righteoufnefs; which Term neverthelefs he could not pafs; becaufe this Regimen does not avail in the leaft again ft the old Corruption of our Parents. But it being in a manner impof- “ üble.

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