How to live for a hundred years and avoid disease / by Luigi Cornaro ; translated by George Herbert ; with an introduction by George Cooke, comparing Cornaro's system with modern theories of diet.

Oxford : The Alden Press, 1935.

63 pages ; 20 cm

Translation of Discorsi della vita sobria

Introduction by George Cooke.--A treatise of temperance and sobrietie, by Luigi Cornaro.--A letter from a nun of Padua, the grand-daughter of Luigi Cornaro.--Maxims to be observed for the prolonging of life, by an unknown seventeenth-century writer--'The Spectator', no. 195, by Addison.