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John Case (c.1660–1700) was an English astrologer and quack doctor, a writer on anatomy, astrology and medicine. ==Life== Case was born about 1660, at Lyme Regis in Dorset. In 1682 time Case lived in Lambeth. By 1696 he had placed the letters M.D. after his name, and was living close to Ludgate, having succeeded to the business of Thomas Safford, who had succeeded to that of William Lilly; he was in possession of their apparatus. Over his door he had the verses Within this place lives Doctor Case, and Joseph Addison wrote in ''The Tatler'' (No. 240) that Case made more money by them than John Dryden by all his poetical works. It is Doctor Case who, in Alexander Pope's poem, is summoned to attend John Dennis in his "phrenzy". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Case (astrologer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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