Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life : with means of correcting a bad constitution / written by Lewis Cornaro, an Italian nobleman, when he was near an hundred years of age ; with a recommendatory preface, by the Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566. Discorsi della vita sobria. English
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life : with means of correcting a bad constitution / written by Lewis Cornaro, an Italian nobleman, when he was near an hundred years of age ; with a recommendatory preface, by the Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    confections and fruits of num- berlefs fweets and flavors ? What unnatural motions and counterferments muft fuch a medley of intemperance produce in the body? For my part, when I behold a fafhionable table fet out in all its magnifi- cence, I fancy that I fee gouts and dropfies, fevers and lethar- gies, with other innumerable diftempers, lying in ambufcade among the dimes. Were I permitted to pre- fcribe fuch a kind of temper- ance as would fuit all perfons, I would copy the following rules of a very eminent phy- fician. Make your whole repair, out 1 of one difh. *If you indulge a fecond, avoid drinking any thing
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