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.

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    METHOD OF CORRECTING A BAD CONSTITUTION^ I was born with a very choleric, hasty disposition; flew into a passion for the least trifle, huffed every body about me, and was so intolerably disagreeable, that many persons of gentle manners absolutely shunned my company. On discovering how great an injury I was doing myself, I at once resolved to make this vile temper give way to reason. I con- sidered that a man overcome by passion, must at times be no better than a madman, and that the only difference between a passionate man and a madman is, that the one his lost his reason foiever, and the other is deprived of it by fits only ; but that in one of these, though never so jhort, he may do some deed of cruelty or death, that will ruin his charac- ter^and destroy his pcacey?r ever. A sober life, by cooling the fever of 'he blood, contributed much to cure me of this phrenzy; and I am now become so moderate, and so much master of my passion, that nobody could perceive that it was born with me. 4*