LEADER 03928nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910459616703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-05864-2 010 $a9786613058645 010 $a0-226-81142-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226811420 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066485 035 $a(EBL)648156 035 $a(OCoLC)699510279 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471747 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11312830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471747 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10428335 035 $a(PQKB)11240203 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC648156 035 $a(DE-B1597)535483 035 $a(OCoLC)1135570082 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226811420 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL648156 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10443370 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305864 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066485 100 $a20000519d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe notorious astrological physician of London$b[electronic resource] $eworks and days of Simon Forman /$fBarbara Howard Traister 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-81140-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-241) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tIntroduction -- $tONE. A Self-Conscious Life -- $tTWO. Medical Theories: A Physician Evolves -- $tTHREE. Forman's London Practice -- $tFOUR. Troubles with the College of Physicians -- $tFIVE. Forman's Occultism -- $tSIX. Forman and His Books -- $tSEVEN. Forman in Society -- $tEIGHT. Forman and Public Events -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aQuack, conjurer, sex fiend, murderer-Simon Forman has been called all these things, and worse, ever since he was implicated (two years after his death) in the Overbury poisoning scandal that rocked the court of King James. But as Barbara Traister shows in this fascinating book, Forman's own unpublished manuscripts-considered here in their entirety for the first time-paint a quite different picture of the works and days of this notorious astrological physician of London. Although he received no formal medical education, Forman built a thriving practice. His success rankled the College of Physicians of London, who hounded Forman with fines and jail terms for nearly two decades. In addition to detailing case histories of his medical practice-the first such records known from London-as well as his run-ins with the College, Forman's manuscripts cover a wide variety of other matters, from astrology and alchemy to gardening and the theater. His autobiographical writings are among the earliest English examples of their genre and display an abiding passion for reworking his personal history in the best possible light, even though they show little evidence that Forman ever intended to publish them. Fantastic as many of Forman's manuscripts are, it is their more mundane aspects that make them such a priceless record of what daily life was like for ordinary inhabitants of Shakespeare's London. Forman's descriptions of the stench of a privy, the paralyzed limbs of a child, a lost bitch dog with a velvet collar all offer tantalizing glimpses of a world that seems at once very far away and intimately familiar. Anyone who wants to reclaim that world will enjoy this book. 606 $aPhysicians$zEngland$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhysicians 676 $a610/.92 676 $aB 700 $aTraister$b Barbara Howard$0695607 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459616703321 996 $aThe notorious astrological physician of London$92125340 997 $aUNINA