1558 – Luigi Cornaro publishes treatise on personal hygiene
The connection between long life and personal hygiene was an important par of Hipocratic medicine and was later popularized by scores of works on proper living, most notably those of Luigi Cornaro and George Cheyne. Cornaro’s Trattato de la vita sobria, first published in 1558, and George Cheyne’s Essay of Health and Long life, published…