FROM LONDON TO EDINBURGH. Ill 



middle of September. He at first allowed Cassanate to 

 act in obedience to the advice taken at Paris, and gave 

 diligent trial to the remedial course suggested at the con- 

 sultation held over the dinner-table with Fernel and De 

 la Boe 1 . From this course no deviation was made during 

 forty days, although his study of the case soon led him to 

 form a view of it extremely different from that on which 

 its first treatment was founded. Cassanate had placed at 

 the base of the disease a cold brain; Jerome traced all 

 evil to a hot one, and differed with much courtesy 

 from his friends in other essential respects. 



At the end of forty days John Hamilton became im- 

 patient, and by that time also Jerome was becoming much 

 troubled by the five Italians who had accompanied him 

 on his journey. One of them caused great scandal by 

 his conduct in the town : he was a greedy, envious, lawless 

 man ; another, named Paolo Paladino, being very anxious 

 to get back to Milan, urged his chief to take at once 

 some active steps. The archbishop, who during all this 

 time wasted in body, had become extremely restless and 

 dissatisfied. Cardan then, at last, felt that it was proper 

 to explain to the reverend lord his own professional 

 position, to point out the fact that he himself dissented 

 from the course of treatment hitherto pursued by Cassa- 



Gonsilia Medica. Opera, Tom. ix. p. 124; and for the succeeding 

 facts, De Vita PrOpria, p. 193. 



