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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    which fending up no vapours to the brain, leave the mind in the perfe@ ufe of the or- gans, and are no hinderance from raifing its contemplation from the wonders ofthe world, to the confiderations of the power of its Crea- tor. A man can be never the better for thofe reflections, when his head is full of the vapours of wine and meat. But when once thefe fuines are gone, his underftanding is clear, he obferves and difcerns a thoufand agreeable things, which he would not have. known or comprehended in another ftate. He can then difcern the falfity of thofe plea- fures which voluptuoufnefs promifes, the real goods with which virtue loads us, and the unhappinefs of thofe whom a fatal delufion renders flaves to their paffions. The three moft dangerous are the plea- fore of the tafte, the hunting after honours, and the poffeflion of riches. Thefe defires inereafe with the age of old men, who having always led a diforderly life, have fuffered their lufts to take root in their youth and manhood. A wife man does not ftay folong before he corrects them; he declares betimes a