Francis Bernard (physician)

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Francis Bernard

Francis Bernard (bapt. 1628 – 1698) was an English apothecary, astrologer and physician, known for a large medical library.[1]

Life

He was the son of Samuel Bernard, vicar of

Society of Apothecaries in 1653.[1] Charles Bernard was his brother.[2]

Bernard was incorporated M.D. at Cambridge in 1678, having received a Lambeth degree earlier in the same year from William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury.[3][4]

He became a fellow of the

Robert Walpole (1650–1700) was one of his patients.[3] He was on good terms with Theophilus de Garencières.[5]

Bernard died 9 February 1698, and a monument to him was placed in

St Botolph Aldersgate, by his wife.[3]

Library

His house was in

Sloane manuscripts is one of Bernard's casebooks.[3]

Astrologer

Bernard was also an astrologer, who cast horoscopes in the traditional way. The nativity he gave for George Joyce survives.[8] John Aubrey took an interest in the horoscope for Thomas Hobbes on which Bernard collaborated with John Gadbury.[9] Bernard was lampooned as "Horoscope" in Samuel Garth's The Dispensary:[10]

An inner Room receives the numerous shoals
 Of such as pay to be reputed Fools,
 Globes stand by Globes, Volumes on Volumes lie,
 And Planetary schemes amuse the eye.

Bernard communicated to William Lilly in 1664 a theory on horoscopes for cities, and its application to the prediction of fires in London.[11]

Family

Bernard and his wife Anne were married around 1654.[1]

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2241. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2238. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b c d e Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bernard, Francis (1627-1698)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  4. ^ "Bernard, Francis (BNRT678F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10381. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  6. JSTOR 4422407
    .
  7. ISBN 978-90-474-2902-9
    .
  8. ^ Thomas, Keith (1973). Religion and the Decline of Magic. Penguin Books. pp. 422 and 443 note 80.
  9. ISBN 978-3-7340-8033-3
    .
  10. JSTOR 24619041
    .
  11. ^ Thomas, Keith (1973). Religion and the Decline of Magic. Penguin Books. p. 388.

External links

  • A Catalogue of the Library of the Late Learned Dr. Francis Bernard (1698)[1]

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bernard, Francis (1627-1698)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

  1. ^ A Catalogue of the Library of the Late Learned Dr. Francis Bernard, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Physician to S. Bartholomew's Hospital ... Which Will be Sold by Auction at the Doctor's Late Dwelling House in Little Britain: the Sale to Begin on Tuesday, Octob. 4. 1698 (in Latin). 1698.
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