# Doctor Cigna — Short Fiction character guide

> Doctor Cigna in Short Fiction by Xavier de Maistre.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0000-a-journey-round-my-room

## Who they are

A physician character in the story.

## Relationships

### [Pericles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/characters/pericles)

_professional_

Doctor Cigna is likely Pericles' physician or medical advisor, attending to his health.

### [Madame de Hautcastel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/characters/madame_de_hautcastel)

_professional_

Doctor Cigna is Madame de Hautcastel's physician, attending to her medical needs.

### [Plato](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/characters/plato)

_professional_

Doctor Cigna is Plato's physician or medical consultant, providing care or advice.

## In the story

### [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/xlii)

Appears in the narrator's dream, debates with Hippocrates about modern medicine, and burns his wig.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_58_se/chapters/endnotes)

Identified as a popular Turin physician when the 'Voyage' was written.

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