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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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    vegetative Part, there is fo much Food taken: as proves of any remarkable Offenceor Mole- ftation to the Operations of the fuperior Fa- culties, namely of the Senfes, the Imagination,, the Underftanding, or the Memory; then it is; I think, evidently plain, that an Excefs of Diet has been indulged. Now this Irregularity caufes Abundance of Vapours to be emitted out ofthe Stomach-into the Head; from -whence alone proceed this Offence and Impediment to. the nobler Parts, which (as Experience tettifies) would be but fparingly conveyed thither, was but a due Meafure rightly obferved: For all thofe that are fober Livers, areas expert, brifk, and active, and equally as capable of gomg through any Exercife, ‘the intellectual Faculties fhall require, as~ well after. as before their — Meals: And this‘Cornaro himfelf (whofe Trea- tife of The Benefits of a Sober Life, is here- unto fubjoined) doth often teftify; and it is. no more than what I myfelf, and divers others: of the fame Society do daily experience. ‘Nay, thofe ancient and holy Fathers, whofe Diet was but once a Day, andi that but flender, were not one Jot the lefs qualified for their {piritual _ Exercifes, nor thereby: rendered lefs capable: of performing them aright. If fo, with how much the greater Eafe then may thofe perform their religious Duties, who divide the Quan- tity, and twice. a-day moderately - refrefh. Na-. ture ? I obferved to you before, that thofe Vapours. and Fumes, which cloud or darken the Under- a te do nine proceed from the Meat re- 3 ceived