The Immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott.

Date:
1815
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Credit: The Immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    jients or music Call you this an infirm crazy old age, as they pretend, who say, that a man is but half alive after he is seventy ? They may believe me if they please, but really I would not exchange my serene cheerful old age, with any one of those young men, even of the best constitution, who give the loose to their appetites ; knowing as I do, that they are thereby subjecting themselves every mo- ment to disease and death. I remember all the follies of which T was guilty in mjr younger days, and am perfectly sensible of the many and great dangers they exposed mc to 1 know with what violence young persons are car- ried away by the heat of their blood. They pre- sume on >heir strength, just as if they had taken a sure lease of their lives: and must gratify their appetites whatever it cost them, without consider- ing that they thereby feed those ill humours, which do most assuredly hasten the approach of sickness and death ; two evils, which of all others are the most unwelcome and terrible to the wicked. The first of these, sickness, is highly unwelcome, be- cause it effectually stops their career after this w rl 's business and pleasures, which being their sole delight and happiness, must be inexpressibly s <' a id mortifying. And the impatience and gloom of sickness ig renderc I tenold uiore insupportable