The art of living long : a new and improved English version of the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian, Louis Cornaro, with essays / by Joseph Addison, Lord Bacon, and Sir William Temple.

  • Luigi Cornaro
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[1903]
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Credit: The art of living long : a new and improved English version of the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian, Louis Cornaro, with essays / by Joseph Addison, Lord Bacon, and Sir William Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    drugs; after which he closed it up so artificially that nothing appeared. He likewise took a mall; and, after having hollowed the handle, and that part which strikes the ball, he inclosed in them several drugs after the same manner as in the ball itself. He then ordered the sultan, who was his patient, to exercise himself early in the morning with these rightly pre- pared instruments, till such time as he should sweat; when, as the story goes, the virtue of the medicaments perspiring through the wood, had so good an influence on the sultan’s constitution, that they cured him of an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This Eastern allegory is finely contrived to show us how beneficial bodily labor is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic. I have described in my hundred and fifteenth paper, from the general structure and mecha- nism of a human body, how absolutely necessary exercise is for its preservation; I shall in this place recommend another great preservative of health, which in many cases produces the same effects as exercise, and may, in some measure, supply its place, where opportunities of exercise are wanting. The preservative I am speaking of is temperance; which has those particular advantages above all other means of health, that it may be practiced by all ranks and conditions, at any season or in any place. It is a kind of regimen into which every man may put himself, without interruption to business, expense of [16]
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