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Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: : with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c. / Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when he was near an hundred years of age. And made English.

  • Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date:
1722
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: : with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c. / Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, when he was near an hundred years of age. And made English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fre Poe RACE. a4 How many Men do we daily — fee, by their Intemperance and — Excefs, to lay the Seeds of future — Diftempers, which either carry — them. off in the flower of their Age, which is the Cafe of moft, or elfe render their Old Age, if they arrive to it, uneafy and un- comfortable > And though we fee others daily drop into the Grave before us, and are very apt with _ Juftice to.afcribe the Lofs .of our Friends, to their living too faft, — yet we cannot forbear treading in the fame Steps, and following the fame Courfes, *till at laft, by a violent and unnatural Death, we are hurried off the Stage of Life Siter them... 2% What the Noble Cornaro ob- _ ferves of the Italians of his Time, _ may very well be applied to this ¢ Nation at prefent, we. ‘“ That i he we