206 JEROME CARDAN. 



by the senate to retain his sendees, and for his first ap- 

 pointment as a teacher in the university, Cardan knew 

 himself to be indebted to his patron, Cardinal Sfondrato, 

 who had by good chance returned to Milan, and assisted 

 his much-trusted physician in the hour of need 1 . 



1 De Vita Propria, cap. xv. 



