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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    fometimes fall a writing, feeking always an occafion of being ufeful to the public, and doing fervice to private perfons, as far as pof- fible. I do allthis without the leaft trouble ;. and in fuch times as I fet ane for thefe em- ployments. I dwell in a houfe, which befides its being fituated in the pleafanteft part of Padua, may be looked upon as the moft convenient and moft agreeable manfion of this city. Ithere . make my apartments proper for the winter and fummer, which ferve as a fhelter to de- fend me from the. extreme heat of the. one, and the rigid coldnefs of the other. I walk out in my gardens, along my canals and walks, where I always meet with fome little thing or other to do, which at the fame time employs and diverts me, I fpend the months of April, May, Septem- ber, and O@ober, at my country-houfe; which is in the fineft fituation imaginable. The ‘air of it is good, the avenues neat, the gar- dens magnificent, the waters clear and plen- uful; and this feat may well pafs for an en- chanted palace. When lam there, I fome- times