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.

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    an age, as thofe who live ever 20 foberly. For this argument is founded on fuch uncertainty and hazard, and occurs fo fel- dom, as to look more like a miracle than the regular work jof nature. And thofe, who, on the credit of their youth and conjlitution, will pay any re- gard to fo idle an objection, may depend on it that they are the betrayers and miners of their own health. And I can confidently and truly affirm, that an old man, even of a bad conftitution, who leads a regular and fober life, is furer of a longer one, than a young man of the ben: conflitution who lives diforder- ly. All therefore who have a mind to live long and healthy, and