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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    capable of doing; nothing after fourscore, but loaded with infirmities and distempers, are perpetu illy languishing in pain, not half so chc> i i ii, pleasant and happy as I am. Several physicians were so good as to prognosticate to me, ten years ago, that it was impossiole lor me re; bold out three years longer : however, I still find myself less weak than c w r, and am stronger this year than any that went before. This sort of miracle, and the many favours which I received trom God, obliged them to tell me, that I brought along >\ ith me at my birth, an extraordinary and special gift of na- ture ; and proof of tneir opinion, they em- ployed all their rhetoric, and made several elegant speeches on that head. It must be acknowledged, my Lord, that eloquence has a charming force on the mind of man, since it often persuades him to believe that which never was, and never could be. I was very much pleased to hear them dis- course ; and could it be helped, since they were men of parts who harangued at that rate ? But that which delighted me most, was to reflect, that age and experience may render a man wiser than all the colleges in the world can. And it was in truth by their help, that I knew the error of that notion. To undeceive those gentlemen, and at the