Peter Turner (physician)

[1] He was the son of William Turner the churchman, Marian exile and botanist, and his wife Jane Auder.

[1] Turner is one of the "Lime Street naturalists" for Harkness, who also notes his reputation for chemical treatments that killed his patients.

[7] When the German Valentine Russwurin, a Paracelsian with a worked-out system of treatment, was active in London, Turner accompanied him to observe his methods.

[2] In the 1584–5 session he introduced a bill for a presbyterian polity, and a Reformed liturgy following John Knox, though with no outcome;[8][9] Christopher Hatton spoke against it.

He was buried near his father in the church of St. Olave's, Hart Street, London, in a coloured tomb of the Jacobean style, on which his effigy knelt in a scarlet gown.

It responded to a work of Francis Herring, Certaine Rules, Directions or Advertisements for this time of Pestilentiall Contagion: with a Caveat to those that weare about their Neckes impoisoned Amulets as a Preservative from the Plague (1603 first edition).

Turner argued that the arsenic and orpiment in amulets were active against certain diseases; Herring replied in 1604 for the College of Physicians.

[11] A Spirituall Song of Praise appended to Oliver Pygge's Meditations concerning Prayer to Almighty God for the Safety of England when the Spaniards were come into the Narrow Seas, 1588, 1589, has also been attributed to Turner.