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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    Jong experience demonstrates, that this can not be attained WlthoiltTEMPERANCE andEx- xrcise, I fhall in this paper give the reader fuch a view of the ilructure and mechanifm of liis own frame, as will convince him of the neceflity and import- ance of thofe virtues. I coniider the body as a fy{- tem of tubes and glands, or, (in a more ruftic phrafe) a large bundle of pipes and ftrainers; every part of the body, all the .bowels, mufcles, tendons and ligaments, are compofed by a conjunction of countlefs num- bers of thefe pipes and /train- ers, that is, of arteries, veins, nerves and glands. Thefe in- numerable veffels, difpofed in proper order, and filled with fuita a