TY  - BOOK
AU  - Traister,Barbara Howard
TI  - The notorious astrological physician of London: works and days of Simon Forman 
SN  - 9780226811420 (electronic bk.)
AV  - R489.F585 T73 2001eb
U1  - 610/.92 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Forman, Simon,
KW  - Forman, Simon.
KW  - Physicians
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - History, 16th Century
KW  - History, 17th Century
KW  - 1552-1611
KW  - Forman, Simon
KW  - Medicine
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Medical
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - Medische astrologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Medizin
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-241) and index; List of Illustrations; Introduction; One: A Self-Conscious Life; Two: Medical Theories: A Physician Evolves; Three: Forman's London Practice; Four: Troubles with the College of Physicians; Five: Forman's Occultism; Six: Forman and His Books; Seven: Forman in Society; Eight: Forman and Public Events; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Quack, 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 But as Barbara Traister shows in this fascinating book, Forman's own unpublished manuscripts--considered here in their entirety for the first time--paint a quite different picture of the works and days of this notorious astrological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
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