Casebooks

RN Edward parkins grosse & corpulent 5{0}|6| y Octob 20 h {sic} hor 10. 1604. a bad digestion. a child 4 y. old.

RN Mres katheron longvild can eate nothing stomacke full 23 y Ian xij ♂ hor. 10. 30 ant m. 1602.

RN Thomas Chivoll of Bow brickhill 22 y a batch Iune 5 ♀. h. 10 ant m 1618 cōpl of the sournes of his throate cānot swallow Drinke in great extremity.

RN Iohn Rawlings of stocke golding. almost 80 yeres old sick ever sinc satterday night being the 16 of Decēb. die ant {conuctio}. sendeth to me for his Disease the 20 of Decēb. die ☿ h. 10. 15. 30.. 1598. refuseth his meate.

U[1628–31] Sara Ireland of wooburne. y. 22. d ♄. Nouemb: 15 h: 10 30 ant: m: 1628. brought in bed about a moneth since. mopish. eateth little can not sleepe.

RN my lady Dentons mans wife maij 8 ☿ h. 12. 10. 12. ant m 1605. |Margaret Wincot 44 y|

hath taken her selfe to be w^th child sinc twelfetyde to Easter. but hath had a great many of her sicknesses & doe follow her ever since but she is as big as if shee were w^th child & shee thincketh y^t shee feeleth something styrr as if shee were w^th child. very sick frō 3 in y^e morning to 2 in y^e aft^r noone y^t she cā take no rest. neith^r a bed nor vp.

shee maketh & laboureth sometymes to vomite but brin{k}|g|eth vp nothing but wat^r eateth nothing but breath. shee is very dry.

Margaret wyncot 44 y. maij 8 ☿ h. 10. 12 ant m 1605.

RN An Kent of this towne may 28 ♃ h. 10. 40 ant m 1618 had them last weeke nescit an sit gravida hed ill & cānot rellish

RW M^r Matthias Cōny of Newport for his daughter Francis. y. 4. d ♃. h: 10: 30 \15/. ant: m Feb: 24. 1620. eateth nothinge: is verie faynt & weake./ had a little of diaprunis w^ch brought away ij wormes.

RW Iohn Amyas of Southhill in Bedford sheire. y. 65. d. ☾. h: 10. 40 ant. m: Feb. 28. 1620. ill sinc Tuesday \Fryday/ last. cannot vomite nor goe to the stoole. Eateth nothinge: drinketh sometimes. Cryeth out of his body; sleepeth not.

RN Mres Mathew of Broden for her sone & hayre M^r Iohn mathew 8 yers old in cleare Lent the first sonday

subiect to melancholy he {illeg} sleepeth mutch & seemeth to be aguish subiect to melancholy \delighteth in nothing/ will t {sic} no stomack Aguish

RN Thomas Mynde of Staple In clarke of london 32. vnmaried for a swelling in his stomacke & chest & camot {sic} digest. Ian. 10 die ♃ h. 10 ant m. 1600

RN A womā of fanystratford strangly handled gyped {sic} belly casteth alwys eateth litle kind to Iohn Rutland Mach {sic} 28 ☾ h. 10 30 ant m 1608

RN An Parkins of Stony stratford 37 y Iuly. 7. ♂ h. 10 30 ant m 1618. sucketh a child. 3. quatres {sic} neav^r well sinc she was brought a bed weake & feeble cā eate litle. scoureth mutch. is very lame

RW Laurence Iuckkerby of Layton. y. 38. d. ♂ h: 22. 55. ant. m. Martij 14 1620. put on a shirte not ayred on morninge, & was all that \day/ after it cold & aguish & at night had a great payne with an extreeme stick in his ryght side. can take nothing but liquid matter, & yet hee vomiteth vp that againe If hee doth but stirre his sticke taketh him extreamely. hee is very faynt.

RW M^r Edward Birckberd of Astwell \y. 50./ d. ☉. h 10. Feb: 3. 1622. had of late a swellinge in his thighes & leggs, w^ch was taken away by physicke purginge: since that his stomacke is gone: is verie weake: troubled w^th a cough & drouth: cannot sleepe. RN a great difficulty of breath./ cānot rise out of his bed nor stand v nor restRW

RN Edw. Birckberd a spec serv vnto S^r George Sherly M^r Colins houshold physition.

RN William Tomson of 12 yeres on a friday a moneth afore Miklemas quærit valde ægrotat ventre. 6 of novemb. it tooke him on 2 of novemb. die ♃ in the morning. he it cometh & taketh him by fits & & {sic} ariseth vp in his stomack he could not take his meate. but would vomit vp but y^t is stayd & troubleth his hed but most his belly burneth wonderfully cannot eate. Novemb. 6. die ☾ h. 1{2}|0|. ant m. 1598. cū filij consensu. h. 10. 30.¹