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INDEX. 



P. 



Paccioli, Fra Luca, di Borgo, i. 180, 212, 

 213, 234, 274 



Padua, Cardan studying at, i. 49 ; rector 

 Gymnasii, 5863. State of the uni- 

 versity, 5161. Conferring of degree 

 there. See Doctor 



Paladino, Paolo, ii. Ill 



Palavicini, the, ii. 215 



Palmistry,!. 95-99 



Pandolfo, i. 46 



Paralipomenon, Cardan's, ii. 287, 288 



Paris, Books on Subtilty, published at, 

 ii. 60. Cardan there, ii. 99107 



Pavia, Cardan born at, i. 6, 8, 10. 

 Student there, i. 4247. Professor in 

 the University of, i. 204, 205, 289; ii. 

 70, 198213, 242273, 276 



Pawnbroking, ii. 207 



Pens, i. 83, 126 



Pension, Cardan's, from the Pope, ii. 293 

 299 



Perfume and perfume balls, ii. 117, 118 



of roses, effect of, ii. 118 



Personalities in literature, Cardan's 

 hatred of, 184, 185 



Perspectiva Communis, Peckham's, ed. 

 Fazio Cardan, i. 4, 5, 48 



Petreius, Joannes, printer, i. 183, 184- 

 187,191,272, 282; ii. 58 



Petrus, Henricus, printer, ii. 158, 159 



Phantoms, i. 35, 36, 37 



Pharnelius. See Fernel 



Philology, i. 282 



Phthoe, i 283 ; ii. 77 



Physicians, Colleges of. See College 



consultations of, i. 163-165; ii. 104, 



111. Investigating a case of poison- 

 ing, ii. 211, 214, 215, 217, 224. On their 

 rounds, ii. 196. Stating a case, ii. 80, 

 81. Physician and patient, ii. 99, 100, 

 104. Physician's opinion on a case, ii. 

 112122. Quarrelling in the streets, 

 ii. 260, 262. Cardan's opinion of the 

 profession as a trade, ii. 283. Their 

 salaries in villages, ii. 154, 155. See 

 also Doctor and Medicine 



Physiognomy, ii. 53, 56 



Pillows, ii. 118 



Pirates, ii. 148 



Pisanus, i. 274 



Pitcher, demons in a, ii. 95 



Pitio, Ottavio, ii. 301 



Pius V., ii. 293296 



Placentia, i. 150, 151 



Plague, the, i. 1, 8, 10, 27, 50, 72, 200, n. ; 

 ii. 151, 155 



Cardan's treatise on, i. 75 



Office of prefect of, i. 155 



Plat, Thomas, his endowment, i. 125 



lecturer, Cardan as, i. 125, 126, 204 



Pleading for his son's life, Cardan, ii. 

 219233 



Poems and epigrams, Cardan's, i. 282 



See Verses 



Poisoning by arsenic, case of, ii. 208, 210, 

 212 



Poisoning by arsenic, medico-legal in- 



vestigation.ii. 214, 215, 217, 222225 

 Polesino de Rovigo,the, i. 107 

 Poor-house, Cardan in the, i. 123; 



William in the, ii. 253 

 Pope Paul III., Cardan fails with, i. 150 ; 



receives an offer from, 4, 5, which he 



declines, 69 



Pius V. pensions Cardan, 2 93 299 



Porro, Branda, ii. 209, 258 



Portents, i. 67, 83, 148, 298 ; ii. 70, 186, 



187, 199, 212, 215, 237, 265, 266, 267, 276, 



284,288291,308-310 

 Postman, a, i. 215 

 Potable gold, ii. 67 

 Pozzo, Giulio, ii. 278 

 Practica Arithmeticse, Cardan's, i. 142, 



171, 173, 177-182 

 Practice, Medical, in small Italian 



towns, ii. 154, 155 ; of Cardan and son, 



192, 196 

 Precepts to his children, Cardan's 



Book of, ii. 2841 ; of Fazio to J erome, 



194 



Predictions, ii. 131, 138-141, 308, 309 

 Preservation of Health, Cardan on the, 



ii. 52 



Princes, deference to, ii. 31 

 Prison, Gianbatista Cardan in, ii. 214 



Jerome Cardan in, ii. 290 



Problems, i. 219, 224 



Professorships. SecPavia and Bologna, 



and the names of the several pro- 

 fessors 



Progress, i. 290, 291 



Property, Cardan's alienated, ii. 284, 285 

 Proverbs by Cardan, i. 300, 301 ; ii. 30 



41, 46, 47, 67, 68, 306, 307 

 Prudence, Cardan on, ii. 33, 34 

 Ptolemy's geography, Cardan on, i. 131 

 astrological judgments, ii. 96, 156, 



161 



Purgation by nose and skull, ii. 116 

 Putridity, generation from, ii. 61, 65 



Quarrel between Fazio Cardan and 



Clara, i. 31 



Tarfcaglia and Cardan, i. 222273 



Gianbatista Cardan and his wife, 



ii. 208 



R. 



Rainbow, belief concerning the, ii. 64 

 Ranconet, Aimar de, ii. 105107 

 Ranuzzi, Cardan in the pal azzo, ii. 277, 



278 



Rapping spirits, i. 67, 162 

 Rarefaction, ii. 114 

 Ravens, croaking of, i. 83 

 Recorde Robert, i. 208210 ; and note 

 Rector at Padua, Cardan, i. 5863, 65 

 of the College of Physicians, Milan, 



Cardan, i. 200 



Regimen, ii. 122, 126-328, 196 

 Religion of Cardan, i. 52, 54 ; ii. 14, 15, 



30, 69, 158, 159, 195, 276 



