Francis Bernard (physician)

at Cambridge in 1678, having received a Lambeth degree earlier in the same year from William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury.

He was elected assistant-physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital 20 November 1678, and was appointed physician in ordinary to James II.

[3] His house was in Little Britain, London, near St Bartholomew's Hospital, and it contained a major library.

The medical part of his library was reputed to be the largest collection of books on physic yet made in England.

[9] Bernard was lampooned as "Horoscope" in Samuel Garth's The Dispensary:[10] An inner Room receives the numerous shoals Of such as pay to be reputed Fools, Globes stand by Globes, Volumes on Volumes lie, And Planetary schemes amuse the eye.

Bernard communicated to William Lilly in 1664 a theory on horoscopes for cities, and its application to the prediction of fires in London.