Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman
Lauren Kassell • 2005 • Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Author
- Lauren Kassell
- First published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genres
- Biography · History
- Subjects
- Physicians · Social life and customs · Medicine · Alchemists
- ISBN
- 9780191514227
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Published in 2005 by Oxford University Press, this academic monograph explores the life and practice of Simon Forman, a controversial yet prominent physician and astrologer in early modern England. Lauren Kassell utilizes Forman’s extensive collection of personal journals and medical casebooks to provide a scholarly examination of how Elizabethan society navigated the intersection of clinical medicine, natural philosophy, and occult practices.
Kassell’s research highlights how Forman leveraged his reputation as a practitioner of magic and alchemy to build a thriving clientele among London’s social elite. By positioning this study within the broader context of seventeenth-century scientific inquiry, the author demonstrates that the methods Forman used were not isolated superstitions, but rather coherent components of the medical culture of his time. The work was widely praised by historians of science and medicine for its rigorous archival analysis and its nuanced portrayal of the messy, human side of early scientific development.
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