HERE IT IS TOLD HOW MASTER GIORDANO WAS DECEIVED BY A FALSE DISCIPLE OF
HIS
There was once a doctor whose name was Giordano, and he had a disciple.
A son of the king fell ill. Master Giordano went to him, and saw that
the illness could be cured. The disciple, in order to injure his
master’s reputation, said to the father: I see that he will certainly
die.
And so disputing with his master, he made the sick youth open his
mouth, and with his little finger inserted poison therein, making a
great show to understand the nature of the illness from the state of
the tongue.
The son died.
The master went away, and lost his reputation, while the disciple
increased his.
Then the master swore that in future he would only doctor asses, and so
he made physic for beasts and the lower animals. [20]