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.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    to prevent them; exercife clears the vefTels, temperance never overftrains them; exercife rolls on the vital current, temperance gives nature full play, and al- lows her to exert herfelf in all her force and vigour ; exercife diffipates a growing diftemper> temperance Starves it. Phytic is hardly any thing elfe but the fubftitute of tempe- rance or exercife. 'Tis indeed abfolutely neceflary in fome dif- tempers, but did men but live in an habitual ufe of thofe two great instruments of health, there would be but little occasi- on for it. Blithering, cupping and bleeding, emetics, diet- drinks and bitters, are feldom of ufe but to the intemperate and idle, who ufe them in order to