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.

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    in person in these marshy places, along with the commissaries, for two months to- gether, during the heats of summer, without ever finding myself the worse for the fa- tigues I underwent. Of such wonderful efficacy is that temperate life which I con- stantly observe. If in discoursing on so important a sub- ject as this, it be allowable to speak of tri- fl< s, I might u 11 yon,that at the age of four- score and three, a temperate life had pre- served me in that sj rightliness of thought, and gaiety of Humour, as to be able to compose a very t ntertaining comedy, highly moral and instructive, without shocking or disgusting the audience; an evil too gene- rally attending our comedies, and which it is the duty, and will be the eternal honour of the magistracy to discountenance and SU] press, since nothing has a more fatal tendency to corrupt the morals of youth, than such plays as abound with wanton al- lusions, and wicked sneers and scoffs on re- ligion and matrimony. As an addition to my happiness, I see myself immortalized as it were, by the great number of my descendants. 1 meet with, on my return home, not only two or three, but eleven grand-children, all blest with high health, sweet dispositions, bright C2