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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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    abound with vicious Moiftures, or acrimonious Humours; which gradually putrifying,at laft burft out into very terrible Symptoms and Diforders, Arifrotle in his Problems teftifies,that there was in his Time a certain Philofopher, Hersdicus by Name ; who altho’ he was thought and judged by almoft every body to be of a very weakly Com- plexion, and funk into a deep Confumption; ne- verthelefs by the Art: r1¢ diwsrarven:, he lived till — he wasan hundred Yearsold. Plato alfo makes mention of the fame Man in his 3d Book de Rep. Galen in his 2d Book de AZara/mo, as alfo in that of his Prefervation of Health, reports that there was. certain Philofopher too in his Time, who had undertook in fome of his Writings to lay down certain Rules and Maxims, in order to inftruc& Men, howthey might preferve them- delves free from Old Age. Galen indeed doth worthily deride this, asan huge Piece of Vanity and Folly: Yet ftill the Phiiofopher’s own Ex- ample was a manifeft Argument, that his Are was not altogether vain neither, bur very avail- able toward the lengthening out of the fhort Span of human Life. For when he wasat the Age of Fourfcore, he (as himfelf inform. us) laboured under fucha Wafting or Decay of Body, as hardly rendered bim any thing differing from a meer Skeleton: yet by his Art, and the fin- - gular Moderation and ‘Temper of his Diet, he was fo far inftrumental to the prolonging of his own Life, that hedied not till after many Years lingering in a gentle Confumption. | And the fame Galen im another Place fays, * “ That by “* Means ® Arte illa quae diztam preefcribit, eos qui ab ipfo ortu imbe- . cillum