104 JEROME CARDAN. 



for the fact, that while still far from the extreme term of 

 life, six years after his dinner with Cardan, he died of 

 sorrow for the loss of the wife whom he had loved better 

 than his studies. He pined after her death, and in a few 

 months was buried by her side. 



The two French physicians, De la Boe and Fernel, 

 with Cassanate and Cardan, formed the party assembled 

 to discuss the case of the archbishop. Jerome took great 

 pains not to commit himself. When the archbishop's 

 disease was talked about, he listened and said nothing. 

 He was asked at once, before dinner, for his opinion, but 

 declined to speak before the king's physicians, and ob- 

 jected, also, that he was quite unacquainted with the 

 patient. The matter was talked over also during dinner ; 

 but Cardan, when in courtesy he might have spoken, and 

 it was, perhaps, slightly discourteous to maintain reserve, 

 still abstained from committing himself formally to an 

 opinion. 



Jerome saw sights also at Paris. To one of them he 

 was introduced by another of the king's physicians, Nico- 

 las Legrand, who has left little more than his name be- 

 hind him, and who is barbarously Latinised, I do not know 

 whether by his own hand or by that of his friend, into Mag- 

 nienus 1 . He was an excellent man, says Cardan, studious 



J Eloy's Dictionnaire Historique de la Me'decine, not mentioned in 

 the preceding note, has helped me now and then, and coming to the 



