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Case was born about 1660, at Lyme Regis in Dorset.
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John Case
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In 1682 time Case lived in Lambeth. By 1696 he had placed the letters Doctor of Medicine after his name, and was living close to Ludgate, having succeeded to the business of Thomas Safford, who had succeeded to that of William Lilly. He was in possession of their apparatus.
Over his door he had the verses
and Joseph Addison wrote in The Tatler (Number 240) that Case made more money by them than John Dryden by all his poetical works.
lieutenant is Doctor Case who, in Alexander Pope"s poem, is summoned to attend John Dennis in his "phrenzy".
