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For obvious reasons I prefer to quote it in the Latin: "Et nota quod die ilia cavendum est medico a coitu et malis cibis aera corrumpentibus, ut sunt allia, cepe, et hujusmodi, et colloquio mulieris menstruosæ, et manus ejus debent esse mundæ, etc." My quotation is from Gurlt, Vol. I, p. 707. The directions are most interesting.
Interea ne paupertate vires animi languescant nec in flagitium egestas abigat, cavendum. 1732, July 15. I laid down eleven guineas. My fortune therefore must be of my own making. Meanwhile, let me beware lest the powers of my mind grow languid through poverty, or want drive me to evil."
Quanto id diligentias in liberis procreandis cavendum, sayeth Cardan. All which being considered, and that you see 'tis morally impracticable for me to wind this round to where I set out I begin the chapter over again.
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