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CASE36450: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSONGRP38)

Question asked by Mr Poulton (PERSON24947) on 30 August 1609 at 12:00

RN Mr Poulton |of london serv to old Mr Stas of london| sent to me in the behalfe of some yt by witchery had lost there sight Aug 30. ☿. h. 0 12. 16091

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘eysight lost by witchcraft’ in chart

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 203, f. 144r (bottom right part of page)

Mr Poulton (PERSON24947)Anonymous (PERSONGRP38)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Witchcraft suffered (medical))

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Eye troubles  (Sightlessness )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Astrological Chart

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CASE44821: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON38213)

Question asked by the patient on 1 May 1617 between 11:50 and 18:00

RN a poer mā whose ey is in great payne a hot burning rhume no sight this Dosen yers

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 198, f. 144r (bottom right part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON38213)

Medical >Parts of the body>Head and neck (Eyes)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Pain and pricking (Pain)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Burning and inflamed (Burning)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Rheumy (Rheum)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Eye troubles  (Sightlessness )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218)

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?f1-extent-of-transcription=Whole%20entry;f2-number-of-astrologers=Single%20astrologer;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3AEye%20troubles%3A%3ASightlessness, accessed 21 January 2025.

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