Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 169.7

LUIGI CORNARO (1475-1566) Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: with means of correcting a bad constitution Printed for R. Stodart 1817 The 30th ed. xii, 83 p. 17 cm

A Venetian nobleman, Coronaro modified his eating habits at the advice of doctors adhering to a low calorie diet. In his late life he wrote three treatises on dieting the first being Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life.

Cited references: Durling 1042; Wellcome II, p. 392; Morton’s 1592; Walleriana 2138

In memoriam Robert D. Gauchat