280 JEROME CARDAN. 



Certainly there was no lack of rivalry and heartburn- 

 ing among professors who were in too many cases emu- 

 lous and envious of each other. Cardan had a great 

 name, and not a winning nature. While these quarrels 

 were forming an under-current to his not unpros- 

 perous career at Bologna, a student of his class at 

 Pavia, who had become a graduate, delivered an oration 

 in his honour before the university in that town, which, 

 even after great allowance has been made for the rhetoric 

 of old scholastic declamation, is of a kind clearly to 

 imply that the fame of Cardan as a physician and a 

 philosopher remained extravagantly great. But he had 

 not the art of soothing jealousies; and from Bologna 

 rumours were industriously spread abroad, especially sent 

 to the ears of his good patron and patient Cardinal 

 Morone, purporting that Cardan taught an exceedingly 

 small class. There seems to have been some ground for 

 the statement ; " it was not," said Jerome, " altogether 

 true, for I had many hearers from the beginning of the 

 session, and they all held by me till Lent." 



Cardan was first Professor of the Theory of Medicine. 

 Practice of Medicine had other teachers; and the first 

 Professor of Practice was Fracantiano. One day, when 

 Jerome had not long held his new office 1 , Fracantiano 

 was dissecting publicly, and disputing on the subject 



i Because Fracantiano went from Bologna to Padua in 1 563, and 

 taught there till his death in 1569. 



