Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life : with means of correcting a bad constitution / written by Lewis Cornaro, an Italian nobleman, when he was near an hundred years of age ; with a recommendatory preface, by the Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
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Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthy life : with means of correcting a bad constitution / written by Lewis Cornaro, an Italian nobleman, when he was near an hundred years of age ; with a recommendatory preface, by the Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Discorsi della vita sobria. English

Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : Reprinted for the Rev. M. L. Weems, by Parry Hall, MDCCXCIII [1793]

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xvii, 2 unnumbered pages, 20-156 pages ; 14 cm (12mo)

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The first [sic] American edition.

References note

Evans 25349
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 545
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 99
ESTC (RLIN) W31369

Notes

Translation of Discorsi della vita sobria
An earlier American edition of Cornaro's work was printed in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1788
Addison's preface is taken from "The Spectator" no. 195, October 13, 1711. Cf. Austin
Signatures: A-N⁶
Film 633 reel 29 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 29, no. 545).

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1957. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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