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Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: : with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c. / Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when he was near an hundred years of age. And made English.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1722
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: : with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c. / Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when he was near an hundred years of age. And made English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    {mall Tra& of Leffius concerning Health ; but fo far mutilated, that i¢ is not the fame with the Origi- nal, and falls very much fhort of © it. How it came to pafs, that it was thus lamely handed into the World, we fhall not now enquire ; but it may very fairly ferve asa Juftification for our New Verfion of that Difcourfe ; efpecially fince we have render’d the whole, and join’d Three other Difcourfes, with other Matters relating thereto. It was thought proper to leave out. fome few Things , which being writ by a ftanch Roman-Catbolick, feem’d to reflect upon the Prote- fiant Religion : But, bating this, you have the whole of Cornaro’s Treatifes, digefted into fo many diftin& Chapters. But not to weary our Readers with too long a Preface, we fhall ; | recom- 4a a