"As a physician he was, I believe, rather visionary than practical.

I have his _Colliget_, his most famous work in that line, but for my part, in the case of an ordinary disease, I would rather trust myself," with a shrug of contempt, "to the Grand Duke's physician." "But in the case of an extraordinary disease ?" the Syndic asked shrewdly.
Basterga frowned.

"I meant in any disease," he said.

"Did I say extraordinary ?" "Yes," Messer Blondel answered stoutly.

The frown had not escaped him.
"But I take it, you are something of a physician yourself ?" "I have studied in the school of Fallopius, the chirurgeon of Padua," the scholar answered coldly.