. Annals of medical history. witness Duns Scotusand Suiseth, who rank second to none. In dressthey are like Italians; for they arc glad toboast themselves most nearly allied to them,and therefore study to imitate as much as possi-ble their manner and their clothes. And yet,even in form, they are more like the Germans,the French, and the Spaniards. When I looked among those groups of Englishsitting together, I completely thought myselfto be among Italians; they were alike, as I said,in figure, manners, dress, gesture, colour, butwhen they opeaed their mouths I could notiintlerstand so much as a
. Annals of medical history. witness Duns Scotusand Suiseth, who rank second to none. In dressthey are like Italians; for they arc glad toboast themselves most nearly allied to them,and therefore study to imitate as much as possi-ble their manner and their clothes. And yet,even in form, they are more like the Germans,the French, and the Spaniards. When I looked among those groups of Englishsitting together, I completely thought myselfto be among Italians; they were alike, as I said,in figure, manners, dress, gesture, colour, butwhen they opeaed their mouths I could notiintlerstand so much as a word, and wondered 132 Annals oj Medical History at them as if they were my countrymen gonemad and raving. For they inflect the tongueupon the palate, twist words in the mouth andmaintain a sort of gnashing with the teeth. While in London Cardan received aninvitation to go to the Court of France, asroval physician. But he declined. In fact,he liad now received so much money that hewas afraid to travel in the war-disturbed. .;. iZEHAUL PHBISiy^S^J^O^^^^^^^ regionof France. So he started back by w ayof Belgium, Holland, and the Rhine. When Cardan U-ft London for home, hephmned to do a littU visiting. He was agrtat mathinuiticlan as \\v\\ as doctor,and was really responsible for introducingthe great art of algei)ra into the schools olEurope. (Doctors wcrt- often mathemati-cians in those chi.\s. W hen Sancho Panzafrll otf his nude, he critd out, Send for anAlgebraist.) Now there was a celebrateddoctor and mathematician at the Universityof Louvain, named Gemma Frisius. SoCardan crossing at Dover, went to Ghent and Brussels, and then to Louvain where hespent a few days with Frisius. Thence he went to Cologne, and up theRhine to Strassburg and stopped at Baslewhere he was entertained and given a muleworth too crowns. He pursued his way toBerne and Zurich where he visited ConradGesncr. Conrad Gesner was a phjsician,a botanist, a zoologist and one of the mostindustrious andlearned men
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