THE

CODE

OF

HEALTH AND LONGEVITY;

OR,

A CONCISE VIEW,

OF THE PRINCIPLES

CALCULATED FOR

THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH,

AND

THE ATTAINMENT OF LONG LIFE.

BEING AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE THE PRACTICABILITY, OF CONDENS-
ING, WITHIN A NARROW COMPASS, THE MOST MATERIAL
INFORMATION HITHERTO ACCUMULATED, REGARD-

ING THE DIFFERENT ARTS AND SCIENCES, OR

ANY PARTICULAR BRANCH THEREOF.

BY

SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART.

VOL. III.

Neque enim ulla alia re homines propius ad Deos accedunt, quam salutem
haminibus dando.-CICERO, PRO LIGARIO, C. 38.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. III.

PART II.

An Account of the Foreign Authors, who have

written on Health and Longevity, with extracts

from their works, illustrating the opinions they

have entertained regarding these interesting sub-

jects.

No.

1. Regimen Sanitatis Salerni: or the regiment of health,

containing directions for the life of man,

II. Cornaro, and the authors who immediately pre-

ceded him,

Preliminary obfervations,

1. Marcilius Facinus,

2. Antonius Gazius,

3. Platina Cremonenfis,

Pag.

3

47

ib.

ib.

48

ib.

A treatise on a fober life, by Lewis Cornaro, 51

A compendium of a fober life,

83

An earnest exhortation,

95

No.

Pag.

III. Of the authors who have written on health and

longevity from the time of Cornaro to that of

115

116

ib.

117

12. Ferdinandus Euftatius,

IV. Sanctorius,

Medicina Statica, or rules of health, in

eight fections or aphorifms, originally writ-

ten by Sanctorius, chief professor of phyfic

at Padua,

Sanctorius to the reader,

123

ib.

An account of the weighing chair,

125

Sect. 1. Of infenfible perspiration, and the exact

weight thereof,

127

2. Of air and waters,

146

Aphorifms added by the author,

153

3. Of meat and drink.

Aphorifms added by the author,

4. Of fleep and vigilance,

Aphorifms added by the author,

Sect. 5. Of exercise and reft,

Aphorifms added by the author,

ib.

163

166

173

174

178