The Art of Living Long: A New and Improved English Version of the Treatise (Classic Reprint)

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Against diseases known, the strongest fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. - Benjamin Franklin.

For a people of whom less than a two-hundredth part of one per cent. reach an age that Nature intends all should pass, the words of the aged author of "La Vita Sobria" possess a deep import. To them this volume is addressed.

Louis Cornaro's own account - written toward the close of more than a century of life - of the means of his complete restoration from an almost hopeless complication of bodily infirmities, to the happy state he continued so long to enjoy, may be said to form a life story, which, in its peculiar significance, is without a parallel in history.

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