Casebooks

RN Mres Brograve of Braffyn in Hartfordsheere hard by Putchkinge 40|5| y feb. 22 ♃ h. 2. p m 162i

hed gydie full of melancholy would know what tyme best for physick & wheath^r she should come over. & craveth my prayers

would have to be cast & made the 24 of feb some S of ♄. a f{ur} & more here after

w^th a note of there vertues & what certenty of there effects & ve oatus would know the best tyes {sic} for S of ♃ & & the worst tyes {sic} a fit tyme to come vnto me

RN M^r Powell of London sent to M^r Cooke to have some thing to thicken his seed troubled w^th the gonorrea lyeth on his bed back els cānot sleepe is to may {sic} shortly wanteth virility & erection sweateth at night. Ian. 11 h. 8. 20 ant m 1623¹

RN Mres Leate sent her {sic} \a letter in the behalfe of her/ daughter Iane who hath for this twelfemonthe bene troubled w^th a swelling about her gr{y}|o|yne sometys appearing & sometyms not but gone first white & 2 months since burning red & hard almost as big as an egge

she layd to it a litle wax & butter & now & then a poultis of milke & a weddensday last was senet it broke about the 12 of Ap desyrous to have my counsell the 20^th of Apr h. 5. 30 pm 1620 It is broken & did run & voyd filthy \yellow/ stuffe

RN The Lady Longeville new come to Billen about on weddensday last sent h a letter to me Iuly 26 ♀. h. 2. p m 1622

how her courses be broken downe & y^t her hedach is nothing so bad as it was wont.

RN mres Mary Sanders 40 y from Welford Decēb. 15 ♂ h: 3. p m. 1629

tooke not the playster at the day appoynted & is desyrous when and at what day she may apply it

2 hath taken the pouder once

3 Dareth not to bleed vntill she shall come to me

4 is mutch troubled w^th the wynd y^t she cānot keepe cōpany w^th her frinds, & if she represse it, then it fumeth vp to her head

5 vseth fasteth on fish days w^th butter, egs & salte fish wheath^r good

6 hath taken a clyster made w^th anysseeds boyled in water to w^ch she putteth now milke & sugar. thus she hath done twice, wheath^r I like it

7 wheath^r good to take at breakefast a toast sugar & spice & also to eate of the tost. w^ch she hath vsed to doe heretofore

RN M^r Hales & Mres Hales my lord of Kents Baily sent for to cure sleepes March 14 ☾ h. 11. 45 ant m 1625.

RN The lady Dorothy Iennings for her child taken w^th the epilepsye about 10 weekes 13 y Ap 25. ♃ h. 1. 45 p m 1622. hearing y^t I have helpen may {sic} in y^t kind hath written to me to come to London/ /her speach is taken from her by fits for a day & keepeth her bed\

RN Mres Orpe of London writeth to me to send her more {c}|o|f the Cordiall pils & cordiall electuarie novēb. 28 ♀. h. 8. 40 ant m. 1623

cōpl of her old disease bad longus.

desyreth \her former/ cordiall pils & cor: electuarie

RN a young mā \30 y/ that M^r March of Dunstable sent for tempted in mynd march. 14 {♀} h. 11. ant m 1628 /of Dunstable\

RN Mres Brograve of Braphin 46 y Aug 9. ☿ h. 3. 30 p m 1620 /nea{v^r} sent her water but this day\

RN Thomas Maple of long Stoe 40 y Decēb. 17 ♂ h. 12. 1622 wife liveth 3 children. \vide octob 14./

would give me 40^s a fee to come & to see him craveth my opinion would have a cooling pill

RN Georg Steaphens of Tyddington 52 y feb 27 ♃ h. 12. 1623 the L Wentsworth Coo

sorely tormented w^th a bloody flix

back & belly mightely m {sic} griped¹

M^r Rollynson wrote for him

RN Margaret Grave of Balduck 45 y Ap 5 ☾ h. 5. 30 p m 1624 |sent her water at this tyme| cameto {sic} Luton on Easter Tuesd to me /6 child. yongest a yere & a halfe old & she doth suckle it\

RN M^r Iohn Hull of of Magdalen College in Oxon sent me an accōpt of the physick he tooke Ap 20. ♀. h. 8 45. ant m 1627. |sent his|

cānot enioy him selfe nor follow his studyes

requireth an answ & a fig & iug best advice but no more purging but cōforting.

RN Mres Reeve of London hath many obortions craveth ny {sic} helpe & counsell was cōing downe frō London to me Ap 26 h {sic} hor. 11 \30/ ant m 1628

RN About this tyne {sic} M^r Marsh of Dūstable Did write to me in the behalfe of Edward Waters that is Distempered agayne in his brayne octob 8 ♃ h 7. ant m 1629.

RN a kind letter frō the Countesse y^t she had a cold & a hard iourney Ian {sic} her face not yet come to his first portion & her ankle swelled & willing not to take any more physick as yet but to heare of her sone Ian 21. ♂ h. 9. 30 ant m 1623.

ankle red & swelled

RN I receaved a lett^r hora 3 octob. 10 ♀ h 3 p m frō the lady Iennings 1628

a rising & fuming vp to her head making her to blush & suddenly gone.

desyr of a vomyt & of a dyet drink

RN My lady C{illeg}|l|ar{illeg}|e|\re/ {sic} \Clare/ Ashfild of Cowcraft by Chesham 46 y Ap 25 ♂ h 8. 30 ant m 1620 /vomyteth in her fits.\

The lady Clare Ashfild 45 y Ap 25. 1620

RN The lady Ashfild sent her water once agayne the 2 tyne {sic} may the 3. ☿ h. 9. ant m. 1620 \of Cowcraft/ /of Cheshā\