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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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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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    what Benefit I find thereby ; and| laftly, by demonftrating, that nc-- thing can be more beneficial to ai Man, then to obferve a Regimen,, that it is practicable, and very necef-- fary to be followed. I fay then, that the WeaknefS off my Confiitution, which was confide-- rably increas’d by my way cf Li ving, caft me inte fo deplorable ai Condition, that I was forced to bid al final Adieu to all Feaftings, to which: I had all my Life-long a violent In-- clination, I was fo often engaged ins Fxcefles of this Kind, that my ten-- der Conftitution could not hold up un-- der the Fatigues of them. I fell into! the Stomach, the Cholick, and the: an intolerable Thirft . continually, hanging upon me. This made .me: defpair cf any Cure, and tho’ I was; then not above 35 or 40 Years Old,, yet I had no hopes cf finding any other end’ cf my Diftempers, butt what fhouldend my Life too. 3 The: ey