John Farmery (physician)

John Farmery (born c. 1545 – died March 1590) was an English physician.

[1] Farmery was a native of Lincolnshire, and matriculated as a pensioner of King's College, Cambridge, in November 1561 (B.A.

Atslowe, Browne, and Present, formulas for syrups, juleps, and decoctions, for the 'Pharmacopœia.'

98) to have been the author of 'A Methode of Measuring and Surveying of Land; published by J. F., practitioner in physick,’ licensed to Thomas Woodcocke 13 Oct. 1589 (Arber, Registers, ii.

A book, 'Perpetuall and kindelie pronosticacons of the change of tymes, taken out of old and new aucthors,’ 'to be printed in Italian, Frenche, and Englishe,’ and licensed to John Wolfe 7 Jan. 1590–1 (ib.

William Herbert, p. 1177) wrongly describes the latter work as 'Perpetuall Prognostication of the—Weather—by I. F.' It is doubtful if Farmery was concerned with it.