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For reason, also, is of God's gift lower than faith and love, yet a very needful part of man while God leaveth him in his human habitation. There hath come an answer to the prayer, though thou see'st it not." "Is it written, my father, in the cruel words of the interdict?" she gasped. "She is tortured out of reverence," Santorio exclaimed apart, and would have hushed her.
"The Holy Father who succeeds him may not undo his acts of mercy?" "Yes, yes, it is true," Santorio assented, waiting eagerly for the sequence. A little color had crept into her cheeks; her hands were burning; they grasped the physician's arm like a vise; the change was alarming. "The edict cannot hurt my baby! Santissima Maria, thou hast saved him!" she cried.
These practices and the horror upon which she had dwelt ceaselessly would sufficiently account for her condition, said the learned Professor Santorio; and if she could but forget it there might be hope; meanwhile, let her memory lie dormant at present nothing must be done to rouse her.
"For he hath the special blessing of his Holiness Pope Clement, and our Holy Father cannot reach him with this curse of Venice!" "We cannot keep her mind from it," said Santorio, aside to Marcantonio; "it is essential to calm it with the right view no argument, it might induce the most dangerous excitement.
Yet I would I might comfort her, for her soul is tortured." "It must be that thou shalt convince her!" Santorio pleaded with him. Thus urged, Fra Paolo spoke again, in a tone that pity rendered strangely near to tenderness. "I would not weary thee, my daughter, having spoken the truth which I would fain have thee embrace for thine own healing.
When it was almost finished, Julius the Second came to see it, and after expressing the highest admiration for the work, observed that such a habitation was less fitting for a prince of the church than for a secular duke meaning, by the latter, his own nephew, Francesco della Rovere, then Duke of Urbino; and the unfortunate Santorio, who had succeeded in preserving his possessions under the domination of the Borgia, was forced to offer the most splendid palace in Rome as a gift to the person designated by his master.
"I shall get well, Marco mio," she said, with a sudden conviction that surprised them; but still there was no smile in her eyes, and their hearts were sad, though the change that had come over her was so extraordinary that they hoped much from the explanation which the great Santorio had authorized.
The quotation is from chapter xxxiii, line 44 of the Anonymus Londinensis. H. Diels, Anonymus Londinensis in the Supplementum Aristotelicum, vol. iii, pars 1, Berlin, 1893. Sanctorio Santorio, Oratio in archilyceo patavino anno 1612 habita; de medicina statica aphorismi. Venice, 1614. The anatomical advances made by the Alexandrian school naturally reacted on surgical efficiency.
The claims of Santorio are supported by Borelli and Malpighi, while the title of Cornelius Drebbel is considered undoubted by Boerhaave. Galileo's air thermometer, made before 1597, was the foundation of accurate thermometry. Galileo also invented the alcohol thermometer about 1611 or 1612. Spirit thermometers were made for the Accademia del Cimento, and described in the Memoirs of that academy.
"There is that in her face which maketh argument useless," Fra Paolo said low to his friend Santorio, for he was himself no mean physician, having contributed discoveries of utmost importance to the medical science, "and there is a physical weakness combined with this mental assertiveness which doth make it a danger to oppose her beliefs.
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