. Annals of medical history. tle dinner party and dis-cussed the case of the Archbishop from aclinical and Galenical point of view—giving their theory of his troubles, andlaying out a course of treatment. Jeromelistened but kept silent, and would ventureno opinion. He says little about Parisexcept that the streets were very dirty andsmelly, and that the population was verydense. He seems to have been most impressedby the horn of a unicorn which a Frenchdoctor, Nicholas Legrand, also physicianto the King, showed him in the Church ofSt. Dionysius. Cardan was not a gossipytraveler. He now made hi
. Annals of medical history. tle dinner party and dis-cussed the case of the Archbishop from aclinical and Galenical point of view—giving their theory of his troubles, andlaying out a course of treatment. Jeromelistened but kept silent, and would ventureno opinion. He says little about Parisexcept that the streets were very dirty andsmelly, and that the population was verydense. He seems to have been most impressedby the horn of a unicorn which a Frenchdoctor, Nicholas Legrand, also physicianto the King, showed him in the Church ofSt. Dionysius. Cardan was not a gossipytraveler. He now made his financial arrangementwith the Archbishops physician. A con-tract was drawn up and then destroyed asbeing an instrument unnecessary betweena physician and an honorable patient—aninteresting comment upon the medicalethics of the day. I do not know whetherwe now are up to such a standard. Cardanwas to have his traveling expenses and tengold crowns a day while attending theArchbishop. Cardan and Cassinate traveled down the. Seine to Rouen, with his five attendants,and part of the way with an escort offourteen horse and fifteen footsoldiers. ForFrance and Spain were then at war and 126 Annals of Medical History Cardan was a subject of the EmperorCharles V. They went to Boulogne, andCalais and thence to London, arriving onJune 3, 1552. He stayed there three daysand then started for Scotland. Cardans journej from London to Edin-burgh took twenty-three days, and hearrived there on June 29. Cardan stayed in Edinburgh till Sep-
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