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Richard Forster (c.1546–1616) was an English physician. ==Life== He was son of Laurence Forster, and was born at Coventry about 1546, and was educated at All Souls' College, Oxford. He graduated at Oxford, M.B. and M.D., both in 1573. He became a fellow of the College of Physicians of London about 1575, but his admission is not mentioned in the ''Annals.'' In 1583 he was elected one of the censors, in 1600 treasurer, and Lumleian lecturer in 1602. He was president of the college from 1601 to 1604, and was again elected in 1615 and held office till his death on 27 March 1616. He had considerable medical practice, and was also esteemed as a mathematician, as reported by William Camden, when recording his death, William Clowes, the surgeon, praises him, and in 1591 writes of Forster as 'a worthie reader of the surgerie lector in the Phisition's college,' showing that he gave lectures before the Lumleian lectures were formally instituted in 1602. He was a practicing astrologer, and it was through Forster that Christopher Heydon's manuscript ''An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations'', defending astrology, passed to Nicholas Fiske.〔Lauren Kassell, ''Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London'' (2005), note p. 65, and p. 89.〕 Richard Harvey indicated him as a leader of the astrologer-physicians.〔Charles Webster, ''Health, Medicine, and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century'' (1979), p. 173.〕 In 1582 he was appointed Consul of the English nation in Ottoman Syria, in "the parts of Alepo, Damasco, Aman, Tripolis, Jerusalem, and all other ports whatsoever in the provinces of Syria, Palestina, and Jurie"〔(Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation )〕 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「Richard Forster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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