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A treatise of health and long life, with the sure means of attaining it, in two books. / The first by Leonard Lessius, the second by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian: translated into English, by Timothy Smith, apothecary.

  • Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.
Date:
1743
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of health and long life, with the sure means of attaining it, in two books. / The first by Leonard Lessius, the second by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian: translated into English, by Timothy Smith, apothecary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Meals, and will not fuffer us to exceed the Bounds of Temperance, or to fwallow more ‘down, or oftner, than our Conftitutions will well bear, and our Stomachs rightly and eafily digeft, with Referenceto the Fundtions of the — Antellectual Faculties, _This is what we term an orderly, regular, or temperate Life’ or Diet : Which Phrafes or Denominations we fhall &- verally make ufe of to fignify one*and the fame Thing. The Matter then, about which this Diet is principally converfant, is Meat, and Drink; wherein a conftant Meafure is to be kepr. Tho’ it equally concerns the Care and Regulation of all other ‘Things; uch’ as. immoderate Heat and Cold, excéflive Labour, and the like; all which heap many Inconveni- encies on the Body, and many times difturb at leaft, if not totally obftruct the Operations of the Mind, £5 Diferent Cone Now this Meafure or Pro- Ritations require pOrtionis not the fame with re- shite Mea- fpect to all, but very different ures. .- ° according to the various Con- {titutions, particular Strength, and unequal Ages of Men. ~For one Degree of Propor- tion is due to Youth, when in it’s Flower, another to Maturity, and a third to Old Age. The Sickly and Infirm, the Sound and Robuft, the Phlegmatick and Cholerick, have likewife their feveral Meafures ; in regard, that in fuch a Diverfity of Complexions the Faculties of the What is every Stomach are very different. one’sdueMeafuree Now the Meafure of Food ought to be as precifely adjufted to the Quality and