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In other instances, they illuminate the process of reception of new material, suggesting professional or other purposes to which innovations could be put. Although the arrangement of this book is topical rather than chronological, its five parts are designed as a sequence. The next chapter continues the description of Cardano's medical world, begun in this introduction, with an account of his activities as a practitioner. In it, I consider his self-presentation as a healer, while endeavoring as far as possible to place his own accounts of himself and the men, women, and children he treated in the social and professional context of patients and practitioners in Milan, Bologna, and Rome.

Cardano's assertive insistence on the record of his successes in practice makes success as a practitioner into both test and authentication of medical knowledge and skill. His practice guarantees the validity of his medical learning and his suitability to teach medical theory in an academic context, not the other way round. The emphasis was clearly a matter of choice, since in reality, his dedication to writing (including the writing of learned medical works) and to the mastery of other disciplines besides medicine must have limited the time available for practice.

A reference to "certain of our well-born physicians . . 38 On the other, he judged them by the standards of the most advanced medical and philosophical learning and found them wanting. His attitude is made very clear in one of his few surviving contributions to the then popular genre of the medical epistle, a letter written from Milan in August 1551 to his former pupil Taddeo Duno in Switzerland. Duno had become involved in a controversy with both another university-educated physician and an empiric over the proper treatment of pleurisy and was looking for his former teacher's backing.

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