The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Those who are annoyed by sickness at sea should drink extract of  
wormwood.  
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To keep in health, this rule is wise: Eat only when you want and  
relish food. Chew thoroughly that it may do you good. Have it well  
cooked, unspiced and undisguised. He who takes medicine is ill  
advised.  
[Footnote: This appears to be a sketch for a poem.]  
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I teach you to preserve your health; and in this you will succed  
better in proportion as you shun physicians, because their medicines  
are the work of alchemists.  
[Footnote: This passage is written on the back of the drawing Pl.  
CVIII. Compare also No. 1184.]  
XV.  
Astronomy.  
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