How to live for a hundred years and avoid disease
Subtitle: a treatise
By: by Luigi Cornaro ... translated by George Herbert; with an introduction by George Cooke, comparing Cornaro's system with modern theories of diet.
Contributors: Herbert, George, 1593-1633, tr.; Cooke, George.
Publisher: The Alden press
Published: 1935
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Hygiene -- Early works to 1800.; Longevity -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Translation of Discorsi della vita sobria.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by George Cooke.; title: A treatise of temperance and sobrietie, by Luigi Cornaro.; title: A letter from a nun of Padua, the grand-daughter of Luigi Cornaro.; title: Maxims to be observed for the prolonging of life, by an unknown seventeenth-century writer; title: 'The Spectator', no. 195, by Addison.