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]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
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![I beg leave to relate one more anecdote, as an additional proof what an impenetrable fhield temperance prefents againft the evils of life. About five years ago, I was over-perfuadedtoathing, which had like to have coft me dear. My relations, whom I love, and who have a real tendcrnefs for me ; my friends, with whom I was willing to comply in any thing that was reafonable; laft- ]y, my phyficians, who were looked upon as the oracles of health, did all agree, that I eat too little; that the nourishment I took was not fufficient for one of my years ; that I ought not only to fupport nature, but like- wife to increafe the vigor of it, by eating a little more than I did.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21111170_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
