By Alec Ryrie
An earl's son, plotting homicide by way of witchcraft; conjuring spirits to discover buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with natural silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new ailment, and the self-trained health professional who claims he can deal with it. this is often the area of Gregory knowledge, a doctor, magician, and consummate con-man at paintings in sixteenth-century London. Drawing on formerly unknown files to reconstruct this remarkable man's profession, Alec Ryrie takes us in the course of the cut-throat enterprise of early smooth medication, right down to Tudor London's gangland of fraud and arranged crime; from the realm of Renaissance magi and Kabbalistic conjurers to street-corner wizards; and into the chaotic, exhilarating spiritual upheavals of the Reformation. at the method, we find out how Tudor England's dignified public face and its rapacious underworld have been in detail hooked up to one another. Gregory Wisdom's profession is an item lesson in the best way to conjure up wealth and respectability from not anything in a turbulent age. And it presents a different glimpse right into a global intoxicated with new rules, the place it used to be most unlikely to understand rather what to believe--or who to belief.
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However, this remarkable and uniquely detailed tale has some more specific and more surprising things to say to us, and it unlocks further stories just as revealing. Those stories centre around the most enigmatic figure in Lord Henry’s story, and the one whose subsequent career is not laid out for all to see in the State Papers: Wisdom, the sorcerer. — 2 — The Physician W ho was Wisdom? He vanishes from Lord Henry’s story without trace, as suddenly as he appears in it. The records of Lord Henry’s arrest, trial, and release make no mention of his fate.
Killing too many patients was bad for business. Moreover, in an age where the best painkiller available was a recent invention called brandy, patients were unenthusiastic about subjecting themselves to 38 The Physician 4. A German woodcut of surgeons at work, 1517. the knife. Most surgeons therefore stuck to those procedures which they could perform relatively safely and (equally importantly, for many patients) relatively quickly. These ranged from dental extractions, through the setting of broken bones, to more drastic measures like amputation—which, for all its obvious disadvantages, was a tolerably safe way of dealing with life-threatening conditions such as gangrene.
Lord Henry would then present his offering and ask to be given the musical talents of which Wisdom had spoken. The recitation of the ritual began. At that moment, there was a knock at the door: another piece of excellent timing. A neighbour by the name of Sir Ralph Bulmer had come by to offer greetings of the season. Henry was forced hastily to take off his robes and deal with Bulmer. After he had finally got rid of him, he returned to Wisdom and asked that they should resume. But then he told me that I had marred all, for the hour was past, so that it could not be done before St.
