128 JEROME CARDAN. 



his ride through. England. His attendants also received 

 gifts. 



In return for all this liberality, the physician, at his de- 

 parture, left in the archbishop's hands a document distinct 

 from the long written opinion already mentioned ; it was 

 a careful and elaborate paper of directions for his lord- 

 ship's private use. This has been published among Car- 

 dan's works 1 . It gave careful and minute directions for 

 the patient's management of himself, laid down a regimen, 

 in which changes of season and other accidents were not 

 left out of sight, and was meant as a substitute for his own 

 presence in Edinburgh. No contingency could arise that 

 had not been foreseen and provided for in one or other of 

 the documents. The directions left with the archbishop 

 tallied, of course, with the contents of the professional 

 opinion to which reference has already been made ; they 

 omitted scientific details, and gave practical results in the 

 form of precise directions. It will be enough to show 

 how Jerome in this paper planned out the archbishop's 

 day, taking an average day, and omitting reference to 

 the contingencies of state of health, season, and weather. 



He was to begin every eighth day with the shower-bath 

 already described. When he came out of his chamber 

 in the morning, prepared after the manner recom- 



1 It is inserted also among the Consilia Medica. Opera, Tom ix. 

 pp. 225, et seq. 



