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See also: English physician and astrologer, was See also: born in 1552 at Quidham, a small See also: village near See also: Wilton, See also: Wiltshire
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At the age of fourteen he became apprentice to a druggist at See also: Salisbury, but at the end of four years he exchanged this profession for that of a schoolmaster
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Shortly afterwards he entered Magdalen See also: College, See also: Oxford, where he studied chiefly See also: medicine and See also: astrology
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After continuing the same studies- in See also: Holland he commenced practice as a physician in Philpot Lane,
See also: London, but as he possessed no diploma, he on this account underwent more than one See also: term of imprisonment
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Ultimately, however, he obtained a diploma from Cambridge university, and established himself as a physician and astrologer at See also: Lambeth, where he was consulted, especially as a physician, by many persons of See also: rank, among others by the notorious countess of See also: Essex
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He expired suddenly while See also: crossing the See also: Thames in a boat on the 12th of See also: September 1611
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A See also: list of Forman's See also: works on astrology is given in See also: Bliss's edition of the Athenae Oxonienses; many of his MS. works are contained in the Bodleian Library, the See also: British Museum and the See also: Plymouth Library
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A Brief Description of the Forman See also: MSS. in the Public Library,
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Plymouth, was published in 1853
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