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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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    wholefom Nutriment; which never ‘fails to beget in and throughout the whole animal OEconomy a complete and perfect Harmony: So that'‘a-good and firm Conftitution of Body and Health are ‘hereby eftablifhed, and pre- ferved: | mYitey Mrerovin” “oon: For they confift in thefe two fifteth in two Things, viz. In the due Pro- Ehings.. portion and Symmetry ‘of the _Humours, both ‘in refpe&t of their ‘Quality’ and Quantity ; and ina certain fpongy Kind of Difpofition throughout the whole Body, hav- ing no Let, or Impediment by Obftructions ; fo that the animal Spirits are at their full Free- dom orLiberty ; and théBlood too, and other Juices of the Body kept in a due Degree of ‘Fhinnefs and Fluidity. hh: Fh, Nor are Temperance and Sobriety only ef- fe€tual in the Prevention of crude Humours; but alfo of Efficacy in wafting and extirpating | thofe Superfluities of Nature, which ‘a Mal- Regimen ‘may have already occafioned; and that more fafely and effectually, than any Kind or Degree of Exercife whatfoever can pretend to: As the celebrated and moft learned Doctor _ Viringus doth thew in his 5th Book of Fafting. Where he fays, ‘‘ that Labour doth only con- “* fufedly ftir the Body, and always exercifeth ** fome Members more than other, and moft “ commonly only fome few Parts alone, and” “ many Times even thofe few Parts not with- “ out agreat and dangerous Hurry and Pertur- “< bation of Humours, with theenfuing Hazard — * of either a Surfeit, or Fever, or fome pleu-. , , | : “© retick,