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CASE58683: Decumbiture for Mr Temple Andrews (PERSON42729)

Question asked by Young Lady Andrews (PERSON27390) on 1 July 1624 at 13:30

RN The litle child had a sore fit Iune 24 h 9 ant m 1624 |extraord fits./ this day had sore fits:|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 4v (upper left part of page)

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CASE68962: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON40960)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40959) on 14 July 1629 at 06:45

RN a womā 4 nyles {sic} frō Cambridg brought her babe to me to see him in his fit Iuly 12 |14| h. 6. 45. ant m 1629

[Partial Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 406, f. 96v (upper left part of page)

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CASE55604: Decumbiture for Oliver Newton [Tyrringham] (PERSON55404)

Question asked by Mrs Sybil Tyrringham [Newton] (PERSON25850) on 17 February 1623 at 09:30

RN Oliver Newton of Lavendon grang taken wth the first epilepticall Fit Aug 12 {illeg}|| h. 9 ant m 1622

[Astrological Chart]

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 222, f. 171v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE61573: Decumbiture for John Harburne (PERSON50812)

Question asked by Harburne (PERSON50814) on 1 February 1626 at 17:00

RN Iohn Harburne of Hartwell 60. y taken wth a swoundding fits Ian 30. h. 11 p m 1626

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 86r (upper left part of page)

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CASE51685: Interrogation (Medical episode) concerning Sir Thomas Myddelton [the son] (PERSON33214)

Question asked by Lady Myddelton [Mary Sandy [Napier]] (PERSON25254) on 16 October 1620 at 07:00

RN my lady Mydleton her husb. water sine consensu octob. 16: h. 7. ant m 1620.

Sr Thomas taken wth a strang fit & passion of the splene & stone octob. 15. h. 10. \9. 30/ p m. 1620.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘stone fit & splene’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 414, f. 205r (upper left part of page)

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CASE50666: Horary consultation concerning Mr Dr James [Justice of the Peace] (PERSON52432)

Question asked by Mrs James (PERSON52439) on 20 April 1620 at 15:20

RN D Iames of Oxford st|ran|gly {sic} \straungly/ taken wth a palsye on the left syde of the face hand & leg taken at church & great red blatches in t|H|is fac & bodye & his ey swelling & f|H|is face a yere before & sinc he contenting certen sup witches & on being acquitted he felt his strange stitch on his s {sic} left syde by fits he supposeth yt the womā susp for a witch but quitted by the Iudges did hurte him the 24 of feb. sep a ap yt night at sup first taken. had his first fit after he talked wth mr Rob. Conye. feb 18. in ye after noone his first fit but his worst fit the 24 of feb when the sup witch was acquitted/

Mres Iames mentioned Mr Doctor Iames |of oxford| Ap. 20 h. 3. 20 p m. 1620 /she related all at this tyme/\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 414, f. 5r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE57561: Horary consultation concerning Mr Oliver Boteler (PERSON28235)

Question asked by Lady Anne Boteler [Farrar] [Butler] (PERSON28242) on 3 January 1624 at 11:45

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her mr Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken wth strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 53r (upper right part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?expand=shelfmark;f1-date=1620-1629;f2-practitioner-is-astrologer=Yes;f3-patient-sex=Male;f4-querent-sex=Female;f5-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3AFits%20and%20convulsions%3A%3AFits, accessed 22 June 2024.