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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London - Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician (Hardcover, New)
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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London - Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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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.
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