100 JEROME CARDAN. 



expenses paid, and to receive ten gold crowns a day while 

 in personal attendance upon the archbishop. 



Hamilton's case having already been laid before the 

 physicians of the King of France, Cassanate took the 

 stranger to consult with them. Brasavolus he did not 

 see. Brasavolus was a famous physician of Ferrara 

 settled at the French court, and named Musa by the 

 suggestion of King Francis. He is said to have been so 

 devoted to his calling, that one day. when word was 

 brought to him in the lecture-room that his house was on 

 fire, he would not quit his class till he had finished his 

 prelection. He then was absent from the gathering, but 

 Jerome and Cassanate dined with Pharnelius and Sylvius, 

 that is to say, with Jean Fernel and Jacques de la Boe. 



Jacques de la Boe was the Parisian professor of anatomy, 

 and Jerome describes him as a merry little old man of 

 seventy, quite bald, quite little, and full of jokes. He 

 was the professor of the old school, who worshipped Galen, 

 taught anatomy from small fragments of dog, and omitted 

 from his teaching whatever was at all difficult even in the 

 authority he worshipped. Sylvius, who was furiously 

 endeavouring to hunt down his old pupil Vesalius, as an 

 impious confuter of the word of Galen, followed him to 

 Madrid with his hate, and sought to bribe the Madrid 

 state physicians with the promise of a baby's skeleton if 

 they would join the chase. Persecution of Vesalius had 



