Astrological Lodge London April 24th 7.00 pm

…It is the cause of everi diseaze that we seeke, and that we ought to know, for Art sayth Tacke away the cause’: Simon Forman and the ‘Prognostical Part of Physick’.

Astrology was a culturally embedded and operationally critical part of early modern medicine, invoked by a range of medical practitioners, such as astrologers, learned physicians, clergymen, various ‘irregulars’ and cunning-folk. Invoking a patient entry from Simon Forman’s casebook (MS Ashmole 226 f.260r), this paper considers Forman’s methodology and practice, in particular his emphasis on changes in humoral physiologies wrought by the planets.