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lived no Years, fifty five whereof he fpent 

 in the Wildernefs, in wonderful abftinence- 

 Not long before our Times, Ludovicm Cor- 

 naritt^ a Venetian Nobleman, when he had 

 lived unhealthfully to the 35th Year of his 

 Age, being frequently afflided with divers 

 Difeafes, at laft by the advice of a certain 

 Phyfician, he ufed a retrained Diet, whereby 

 alone he gradually cured them all ; by little 

 and little diminifhing the quantity of his Meat 

 and Drink, till he defcended to fourteen 

 Ounces of Meat, reckoning Bread, Fleih, 

 Eggs, and other Edibles, and fixteen Oun- 

 ces of Drink daily ; perfevering in which 

 Regimen^ he produced his Life healthful, 

 vigorous, and free from Difeafes above 100 

 Years, as himfelf witnefleth in a Book he 

 put forth, entituled, The benefits and advan- 

 tages of a fober Life. Whence we may 

 colleft (faith Rivcrius)- Cut of whofe In- 

 jlituiions I borrow'd thele Initances, That 

 a fpare Diet doth very much conduce, not 

 only to the continuance of Health, but alfo 

 to the curing of contumacious Difeafes, and 

 of long continuance. For though Natural 

 Heat having fuddenly conceded the frnall 

 quantity of Food taken in, is afterwards 

 employed about the iuperfluous Humours, 

 digefting, diffipating, and byjittle and little 

 C 4 expelling 



