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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    strongly possessed with the dread of it, that it is a hard matter to divert diem from that doleful thought. Blessed be Goo, I am free from lh ir ills and terrors. It is my opinion, that I ought not to abandon myself to that vain fear : this I will make appear by the sequel. Some the re are, who bring along with them a strong constitution into the world, and live to old age : but it is generally (as already observed) an old age of sickness and sorrow ; for which they are to thank themselves ; because they most unreasona- bly presume on the strength of their con- stitution ; and will not on tiny account, abate of that hearty feeding which they indulged in their younger days. Just as if they were to be as vigorous at fourscore as in the flower of their youth ; nav, they go about to justify this their imprudence, pretending that as we lose our health and vigor by growing old, we should endeavour to re- pair the loss, by increasing the quantity of our food, since it is by sustenance that man is preserved. But in this they are dangerously mista- ken ; for as the natural heat and strength of the stomach lessens as a man grows in years, he should diminish the quantity of his meat and drink, common prudence requiring that