CASE15411: Horary consultation concerning Goody Sybil Fisher (PERSON11787)
Question asked by Fisher (PERSON11747) on 1 August 1603 at 12:15
GJ Sibill Fisher of Cokenho 23|4| y August 1. ☾ ho 12 15 p. m. 1603
[Astrological Chart]
Light headed laug{illeg}|h|es, but at first tooke it wth a weeping lookꝭ ghastly. \a/ fleering lookꝭ settꝭ her teeth. one night did nothing but sweare and curse /
Sibill Fisher she knowes not of her husbandꝭ cōming for her, knowes nobody they bynde her handꝭ and feete. when she is loose she is so strong that they cannot Deale wth her. singꝭ idle songꝭ. Desyres to daunce. She had 2 midwives the first vnskilfull the 2 froward & would not meddle wth her because she was not first sent her, suspected to be a witche, the woman well layd but a weeke after fell into these fittꝭ & at first speaking of her 2 midwyfe sayd. what doest thou there wth thy blacke hen. & such like speeches
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Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 207, f. 113v (bottom left, and upper right parts of page)
CASE20799: Horary consultation concerning Anne [Agnes] Wright (PERSON17429)
Question asked by the patient on 15 March 1604 at 12:30
RN An Wright of litlington 23. y a mead martij 15 ♃ hor. 12. 30. ant m 16004 {sic}.
[Astrological Chart]
last yere shee came for her infirmity hath taken greefe for on shee loveth.
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 415, f. 40v (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)
CASE12702: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Hartwell (PERSON12608)
Question asked by the patient on 15 September 1599 at 13:15
RN Elisabeth Hartwell of Astwood onc Mrs Vuedales servant. 25 y. vnmaried. hath clums of bloode in her mouthe 15 of Sept die ♄ h. 1. 15 p m. 15991
[Astrological Chart]
keepeth her bed ever since satterday last. some feare it to be a plurisy some an impost very hot & sweateth mutch It is of ♂ in ♋ & ☉ in ♎. they thought shee would have died.
her watr of a good colour he thick hath motes heares & dust. costive |her water was to hie coloured. & had black humours|
I gave her Diaturb. ʒj. a lytle rubarb. 3 of scam. decoct. ℥j. deco endive ℥j.
gratis./
Notes:
1 ‘clūpers of blood in her mouth’ in chart
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 204r (upper left part of page)
CASE78557: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Dorothy Norwood (PERSON55682)
Question asked by the patient on 2 November 1633 at 12:00
RN Mres Doro {sic} Dorothie was baptized 7 of Iuly 1613 19 y old sent novēb 2 h {sic} hor 12 1633 /a maryed womā 3 y. neaver had child. her husb: hath a dropsy she looketh well & hath a good coulor.\
[Astrological Chart]
Mr Thomas Norwoods Daughter in law of wythybrooke octob. 31 hath taken a course of physick vnder an Apothecary in Coventry alnost {sic} a yere & is no way mended but weaker
her stomack almost quite gone & wanteth sleepe
hath often vomyted blood but more of late & cōmonly after meate hath a stupidity & lightnes of head her stomack always payned wth an Inward soarenes wch payne doth now descend vnto the back, hyps, thighs, & legs wth an extraordinary swelling. begyning \taking his begȳing/ at the chest
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 412, f. 22v (upper left, and upper right parts of page)
