Casebooks

RN D Hugs sent me a crowne voydeth cravell & sometyms a litle blood craveth something to keepe him soluble for he is cōmonly Costive Iuly. 6 h {sic} hor 4. 20 p m 1633.

RN M^r Georg Eland of washing brooke 65 y Sept 1. ♃ h. 12. 163i

65 myds. last borne the fryday before

craveth some mitigation of payne

RN D Sweat \60 y/ march 20 ☉ h. 6. 40 ant m. 1625. /a great cough & wynd a hot dispute\

D^r Astly warden of Alsoules Colledge in Oxford 63. y. Apr. 13. 1. 20. ☾. p. m. 1629

1 Had a colde & an extreame Cough a weeke afore shouetyde {sic} w^ch did much shake & macerate his Body & was freed both of colde & Cough w^thin 3 weekes after. findes a defect in his digestion, in the liuer as hee feareth, w^ch heretofore hath much anoyed him.

2. is \hath beene/ very costiue (saueinge for 3 dayes last past) w^th some forcem^t thereto, yet his Body is temporate for heate & colde.

3 hee is not much thirsty saue at meales;

4 hee sleepes indifferent well, 5 or 6 houres in the night at beast.

5 his stomack seemeth to bee quieted when hee suppeth posset drinke

6 This is his Clymatericall yeare, beeinge 63 yeares at Alhollowetide last.

7 hee desires to knowe howe his Liuer may bee releeved & howe his Body may be loosened.

8 His was water ordinarily keepes in a reasonable lowe Coulour.

9 Hee feares y^t his Body (beeinge old & weake) will not much abide Phisike./

10 his dyet com̄only is veale & broth. & sometimes mutton, his drinke is small Be{e}re

vide April. 13.

D^r Astley warden of Alsolue {sic} Coll. in Oxon 63. y. Apr. 13. ☾ h. 2|1|. 20. p. m. 1629.

RN old M^r Stockwell of North Hampton 65 y May 4. ♂ h 7. 45 a|p| m 1630

|very shortwyded| his motion of his going is well amended but his should & arme is swelled |on arms lessor then another| & mutch payned & plexed w^th shortnes of breath. troubled w^th wynd also moved to have an Issue craveth my Conseyle

RN Old S^r Rich Spencer for his legs payne cōmending his dyet drink above all things desyreth to have it agayne Iuly the 19 h {sic} hor. 7 30 ant m 1623

SRN The old Lady Temple of Darsett 66. y. March. 29. ♂. h. 3. p. m. 1636.

The pills j sent her did worke very well & did her very much good.

Is now short wynded & much hoven in y^e stomacke & weake in her knees & A{illeg}k|nc|kles, as she was then

hath at this tyme a great hoarsenes & straytnes in her throate. desires the note of y^e Dyet drinke. & pills.

RN The Earle of Kent Ap 24 ♀. h. 11. 38 ant m 1618 ill after his dyet drinke /hed belly gryped\

RN Goodman Richardson of of {sic} bowbrickle 60 yeres old. sick for this 5 weekꝭ space. riseth from his bed nowe & then, he scoureth very mutch. is very desirous to have a vomit for the fleume in his Chest novemb. 17. die ♀ h. 1. 9. 1598. well mended of y^t he was

RN S^r Robart Napeir the elder sent for physick for his stone cholick & bloody water & wyndynes of his belly Aprill 13. ☿ h. 6. 30 ant m. 1625. |stone Cholick|

GJ Richard Greene of Stoke golding 60 y Iune 29 ♀ ho 6 a m. 1604

Stuffed in his chest, sent for a vomitt

RN The Lady Neavell of Leycester 63|4| y Decēb 17. ☿ h. 6 p m 1623.

Wheath^r good to vse scurvy grasse/ her Daught^r Mres Kays not somutch troubled w^th melanch as before but yet still troubled w^th wynd & payne in her stomacke/

RN The lady Curson for her selfe. & for another troubled w^th the cholick in sutch extremity as they thought he would dye of it. Sept 3 h. 1. 20 p m 1609

M^r Smith.

This mā the lady Curson sendeth for is \Iohn/ 6{illeg}|3| sept 3 ☉ h. 1. 20 p m 1609 troubled w^th the wynd cholick