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It is interesting that about this time there was an
upsurge of interest in semi-scientific books on health, and
in 1557 Andrew Borde (formerly physician to Henry VIII)
published his Breviary of Health, followed in 1558 by
William Bullein's Government of Health. This was not
Bullein I S only work on the topic and according to Raven he
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not only lists Turner as the chief of his medical authorities
in the Dialogue betweene Soarenes and Chirurgi, but in his
Bocke of Simples describes Turner as "a Jewell among us
Englysh men as well as among the Gerrnaynes as Conradus
Gesnerus reporteth of hym for hys synguler learning,
knowledge and judgement" (English Naturalists, p. 137).
Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558 and Turner
was able to return to England. John Strype records that he
preached at St. Paul's on September lOth, 1559, adding, "his
audience was very great (perhaps .increased by his fame)
consisting both of court, city and country. ,,10 He was
reinstated to the Deanery of Wells, although Dean Goodman
whom he was replacing, tried to have Turner removed and the
Queen had to intervene to ensure that he "might remain in
quiet possession" (quoted by Jackson in Facsimiles, p. 22).
10John Strype, Annals of the Reformation, 4 vols;
(1824; rptd. New York: B. Franklin, 1964), I, p. 199.