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CASE70260: Horary consultation concerning Mr Clopton (PERSON46369)

Question asked by the patient on 17 March 1630 at 21:00

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Ralph Ruddle Mr. Rous Clopton of Corp. Chri Coll. Oxon 35. y. Mart. 17. . h. 9. p. m. 1630

[Astrological Chart]

A greiuous Headache takes him at Midnight sometimes in one te of ye head & sometimes in ye other te, but especially in ye left side of his heade, wch makes ye places outwardly sore where ye paine hath beene.1

A continually Noyse in his head wth a tearinge paine as yf it would pull one skyn from another, wch comes sometimes suddenly like a strech, & then is gone in an instant

A dizines in ye heade & a leapinge, as it were of blacke mothes before his Eyes

This paine hath continued these 6 weekes,

Desires to knowe whether it ceeds from ye stomack or spleene, from a cold or{illeg} hote cause

Hath beene let Bloud in ye right arme, & vnder the tongue, & in ye forehead, beeinge tolde by the Physitian ythis greife was caused by fullnes of Bloud

Hath taken Pills & Electuaryes sundry times, but his paine noethinge deminished

Hath for many years beene troubled wth a soundinge & noyse in his head, but neuer wth paine till nowe Feareth a Disposition to the Palsye or Apoplexye Desires Receits & Directions to preuent these two capitall Dangers.

Notes:

1 ‘Extreame Headache’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 177 (upper left part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘CASE70260’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/cases/CASE70260, accessed 28 March 2024.