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Luigi Cornaro wrote:But I may go a step farther, and show how favorable to recoveryis a temperate life, in case of accident. At the age of seventy years, I happened,as is often the case, to be in a coach, which, going at a smart rate, was upset,and in that condition drawn a considerable way before the horses could be stopped.I received so many shocks and bruises, that I was taken out with my head and bodyterribly battered, and a dislocated leg and arm. When the physicians saw me in sobad a plight, they concluded that in three days I should die, but thought they wouldtry what bleeding and purging would do, in order to prevent inflammation and fever.But I, on the contrary, knowing that, by reason of the sober life I had lived forso many years, my blood was in good and pure condition, refused to be either purgedor bled. I just caused my arm and leg to be set, and suffered myself to be rubbedwith some oils, which they said were proper on the occasion. Thus, without usingany other kind of remedy, I recovered, as I thought I should, without feeling theleast alteration in myself, or any bad effects from the accident; a thing which appearedno less than miraculous in the eyes of the physicians.
Seems like I have healed faster than expected.
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