Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life / Written originally in Italian by Lewis Cornaro. Translated into English by W. Jones.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life / Written originally in Italian by Lewis Cornaro. Translated into English by W. Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gan that fails) fo that I chant forth my office every morning, without any prejudice to my lungs, and more cafily than I could in my youth, =; All thefe are infallible figns. a I have.a great while fillto live; but that my life {hall end whenever it pleafes God. How glorious will it then be, having been attend- ed with all the happinefs this world can af ford, fince age has freed me from the flave ery of my paflions ?. 2 A prudent and regular old age conquers and eradicates them, prevents them from bringing forth any envenomed. fruits, and changes all the ill thoughts which , youth infpires, into rhofe that are good. Being no longer a flave to fenfe, I am not troubled with the thoughts that my foul fhall one day be feparated from my body. Iam | no longer difturbed with anxious fears, and racking cares, nor vexed at the lofs of that which is not really mine. The death of my friends and relations occafions no other grief © in me. than that of the firft movement of. nature, which cannot be avoided, but is of no long continuance.