Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 April 2005
- ISBN 9780199279050
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 242x163x22 mm
- Weight 684 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most learned physicians. In this fascinating book, Lauren Kassell vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.
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Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most learned physicians. He survived the plague, was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions, distilled strong waters made from beer, herbs, and sometimes chemical ingredients, pursued the philosopher's stone in experiments and ancient texts, and when he was fortunate spoke with angels. He wrote compulsively, documenting his life and protesting his expertise in thousands of pages of notes and treatises. This highly readable book provides the first full account of Forman's papers, makes sense of his notorious reputation, and vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.
Kassell has succeeded in transcending Forman's eccentricities and reconstructing an image of the astrologer-physician of Lambeth worthy of consideration alongside renowned contemporaries like John Dee and William Lilly
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: The Making of an Astrologer Physician
Early Life and Learning
Astronomy, Magic, and the Mathematical Practitioners of London
How to Write Like a Magus
Part 2: Plague and the College of Physicians of London
The College of Physicians and Irregular Medicine c.1580-1640
Plague and Paracelsianism
Part 3: The Casebooks
How to Read the Casebooks
Gender, Authority, and Astrology
Part 4: Alchemy, Magic, and Medicine
'Of Cako', or the Medical Uses of Antimony
The Food of Angels
Magic and Medicine
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
