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for margaret Kitely of Raunsen march 22. ♀ h. 7 ant m 16i6 & for all people tempted distracted mad or mopish sottish or any way Haunted by any ill spirit or wronged by inchētement witchery or sorcery. or by wicked fantasyes or dreams or illusions

1 first take away the former S. & apply another S at any tyme in necessity or els quando ☾ ap ♃ vl ♀. maxe ♃ ☌ ⚹ △. 2. let blood a litle vnder the tongue but very thriftely in the hed vayne of ye arme. but if thou fynd any frantick & \stark/ mad then. let those be let blood in the vane of the browe very plentifully. if it cānot be gotten in the brow then in any on of the temples. \& hed vayne very thriftely./ but then but litle 3 lastly purge them for 3 mornings & 3 after noones wth sutch a purging dyet drinke as best purgeth the humour that aboundeth.

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 408, f. 36r

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE5915’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE5915, accessed 29 October 2026.