Means of obtaining a long and healthy life / by Lewis Cornaro ; with notes by Mason L. Weems ; to which is added, The way to wealth, by Doctor Franklin.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1809
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Credit: Means of obtaining a long and healthy life / by Lewis Cornaro ; with notes by Mason L. Weems ; to which is added, The way to wealth, by Doctor Franklin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    However, I must confess to my shame, that I have not been at all times so much of a philosopher and Christian, as entirely to avoid these disorders : but I have reaped the benefit of knowing by my own repeated experience, that these malignant passions have in general a far less pernicious effect on bodies that are rendered firm and vigor- ous by temperance, than on those that are corrupted and weakened by gluttony and excess. It was hard for me to avoid every ex- treme of heat and cold, and to live above all the occasions of trouble which attend the life of man ; but yet these things made no great impression on the state of my health, though I met with many instances of per- sons who sunk under less weight both of body and mind. There was in our family a considerable law-suit depending against some persons whose might overcame our right. One of my brothers, and some of my relations, were so mortified and grieved on account of the loss of this suit, that they actually died of broken hearts. I was as sensible as they could be, of the great injustice done us, but thank God, so far from breaking my heart, it scarcely broke my repose. And J ascribe their sufferings and my safety, to