Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life : with the means of correcting a bad constitution / by Lewis Cornaro.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life : with the means of correcting a bad constitution / by Lewis Cornaro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ters so as never to cloy my stomach with eating or drinking; but constantly rise from table with a disposition to eat and drink still more. In this I conformed to the proverb which says, that a man, to consult with his health, must check his appetite. Having in this manner, and for these reasons, conquered in- temperance and irregularity, I betook myself entirely to a temperate and regular life : this first effected in me that alteration which I have already mentioned; that is, in less than a year it rid me of all those disorders which had 'aken so deep a root in me; nay, as I have already observed, made such a progress, as to be in a manner incurable. It had likewise this other good effect, that I no longer expe- rienced those annual fits of sickness, with which I used to be afflicted, while I followed a different, that is, a sensual course of life; for then I used to be attacked every year with a strange kind of fever, which sometimes brought me to death’s door. From this plague, then, I also freed myselt, and became exceedingly healthy, as I have continued from that time fo'ward to this day ; and for no other reason than that I never trespassed against regu- larity, which, by its infinite efficacy, has been the cause that the meat I constantly c