[145] Jerome Cardan, the strange sixteenth-century physician, who dealt so extensively in horoscopes, and is said to have sought the assistance of spirits, professed to own and exercise some specific and supernatural gifts:--1. The power of throwing his spirit out of his body, by which he could see things at a distance. 2. _His faculty of Second Sight, or of seeing whatever he pleased with his eyes, “Oculis, non vi mentis.”_ 3. His dreams, which, as he maintained, uniformly foretold to him what was about to occur, and by which he truly predicted the day of his own death, and 4. his “unerring astrological knowledge.” [146] “Miscellanies, collected by J. Aubrey, Esq.” London: printed for Edward Castle, 1696. [147] “A Treatise on the Second Sight, Dreams, and Apparitions,” by Theophilus Insulanus. Dedicated “To the Honourable Sir Harry Monro, of Foulis, Baronet.” Pp. 107-108. Edinburgh: 1763. Transcriber's Notes: The General Index was not a part of the original text. It has been copied from Volume II of the series. Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Other World; or, Glimpses of the Supernatural (Vol. I of II), by Various