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From the fact that Cardan took part in an unofficial medical conference in Paris, that he afterwards superseded Cassanate as the Archbishop of St. Andrews' physician, and did not find himself with a dozen or so quarrels on his hands, it may be assumed that he was laudably free from the jealousy attributed by tradition to his profession.
Cassanate declares that he had been able to do no more than to keep the Archbishop alive, and he fears no one would be able to work a complete cure, seeing that the air of Scotland is so moist and salt, and that the Archbishop is almost worried to death by the affairs of State.
About this time he wrote the Liber Decem Problematum, and the treatise Delle Burle Calde, one of his few works written in Italian. Opera, tom. i. p. 109. The quotation from the De Sapientia differs somewhat from the original passage which stands on p. 578 of the same volume. Opera, tom. i. p. 89. In a subsequent interview with Cardan, Cassanate modifies this statement. Opera, tom. ix. p. 124.
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