The immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy & happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott.
- Date:
- 1815
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy & happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott. 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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![play for me on instruments of music. Call you this an infirm crazy old age, as they pretend, who say that a man is but half alive after he is seventy ? They may believe me if they please, but really I would not ex- change my serene cheerful old age, with any one of those young men, even of the best constitution, who give the loose to their appetites ; knowing as I do, that they are thereby subjecting themselves every mo- ment to disease and death. I remember all the follies of which I was guilty in my younger days and am perfectly sensible of the ma- ny and great dangers they exposed me to. I know with what violence young persons are earned away by the heat of their blood. .They presume on their strength, just as if they had taken a sure lease of their lives : and must gratify their appetites whatever it cost them, without considering that they thereby feed those ill humours, which do most assuredly hasten the A]}- pvoach<^ sickness and dealfi J two evils, which of all otherx'are the most unwelcome and terrible to the wicked. The first of thesef^ickness/is highly unwel- ^ come, because it effectually stops their career after this world's business aod pleasures, which being their sole delight and happiness, must be inexpressibly sad and mortifying. And the impatience and gloom of sick ness is rendered tenfold more insupportable to them, because it finds them utterly destitute of those pious afTections, which alone can soothe the severity of sick- ness and charm the pangs of pain. They had never cultivated an acquaintance with God, nor accustomed C](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21111224_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
