“The Casebooks Project has opened a wormhole into the grubby and enigmatic world of seventeenth-century medicine, magic and the occult,' said researcher Lauren Kassell, who has spent the last 10 years digitizing the notes.
In 17th-century England, two astrologers-cum-physicians—Simon Forman and his protégé Richard Napier—built up a reputation for being able to diagnose and cure all manner of ailments, simply by looking to the planets and stars.
To address this issue, a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge that has spent the last 10 years digitizing the records, picked their favorite 500 cases from the archive and created transcripts to make them readable for modern audiences. "It's taken 10 years to sift through, edit and digitize all of the cases of Forman and Napier,” she said. “The Casebooks Project has opened a wormhole into the grubby and enigmatic world of seventeenth-century medicine, magic and the occult. Channeled through the astrologers' pens are fragments of the health and fertility concerns, bewitchment fears and sexual desires from thousands of lives otherwise lost to history.
Forman was a master of the occult arts who decided to pursue a life of healing after supposedly curing himself of plague in 1592. He founded a practice in London in which he used astrology as the basis for diagnosing and treating patients with disease—or indeed, helping them with a host of other problems. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was seen by many in the medical establishment at the time as a “quack.” When Forman died in 1611, Napier took over the popular practice.
But the pair prescribed even more unusual remedies for some unlucky patients, from the wearing of slippers made from pigeons that had been slit open, to touching the hand of a dead man. “The approach taken by Forman and Napier may have worked as a form of proto-therapy,” she said. “For example, many women talked openly about their sex lives and fertility fears."
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