Means of obtaining a long and healthy life / by Lewis Cornaro ; with notes by Mason L. Weems ; to which is added, The way to wealth, by Doctor Franklin.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Means of obtaining a long and healthy life / by Lewis Cornaro ; with notes by Mason L. Weems ; to which is added, The way to wealth, by Doctor Franklin. 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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    Oh unhappy Italy! Doest thou not see, that gluttony and excess rob thee, every year, of more inhabitants than pestilence, war, and famine could have done? Thy true plagues, are thy numerous luxuries in which thy deluded citizens indulge them- selves to an excess unworthy of the rational character, and utterly ruinous to their health. Put a stop to this fatal abuse, for God's sake, for there is not, I am certain of it, a vice more abominable in the eyes of the divine Majesty, nor any more destructive. How .many have I seen cut off, in the flower of their days by this unhappy custom of high feeding! How many excellent friends has gluttony deprived me of, who, for this ac- cursed vice, might have been an ornament to the world, an honour to their countrv, «.nd have afforded me as much joy in their lives, as I now feel concern at their deaths. In order, therefore, to put a stop to so great an evil, I have undertaken this little book, and I attempt it the more readily, as many young gentlemen have requested it of me, moved thereto by seeing their fathers drop off in the flower of their youth, and me so sound and hearty at the age ©f eighty-one. They begged me to let them know by what means 1 attained to such excellent health and spiritual my time