Richard Napier (the nephew) Mr Richard Gowland of Westmr Coll. Novemb. 17. ♃. h. 6. 45. p. m. 1631.
Who hearinge of a Chymist yt Liued wth ye Earle of Arundell went to him & consulted wth him touching his disease, vpon his relation how it was wth me held him, he resolued him it was a Catarrhous humor wch if it were in short tyme remedyed would end in a Palsey or some such cold disease.
THe {sic} Chymist would giue him a powder or two, yt shall giue him the one a vomitt thother a purge & afterwards would giue him a Pill yt shall by degrees dry vp that humor in his head & keepe his body solluble also.
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 296 (upper right part of page)
