skip to primary navigationskip to content

Casebooks

Casebooks

Search results

Display  

Showing 1-3 of 3 records with:

  • Astrological chart in info 
  • 1610-1619::1618::12 in date 
  • Medical::Illnesses (named) in question-asked 
 Sorted by:  

Refine your results

Document type

Practitioner details

Practice
Practitioner
Number of practitioners
Practitioner is querent
Practitioner is patient

Astrologer details

Astrologer
Practitioner is astrologer
Number of astrologers

Patient details

Patient is
Patient’s age
Number of patients

How & where did it take place

Querent is asking about
Consultation took place with patient's knowledge
Patient's consent to the consultation is
How did it take place

When did it take place

Date
Time of day

Consultation details

Question asked
Case contains information about
Case contains judgment
Case includes treatment information
Case contains recipe

Person asking the question

Querent is
Querent’s age
Querent is identified
Number of querents

Editorial information

Shelfmark
Volume name
Case deleted
Case text damaged
Hands
Language
Extent of transcription
manuscript page thumbnail

CASE47972: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSONGRP72)

Question asked by Mr Thomas Marsh [March] [the elder] (PERSON4816) on 17 December 1618 at 17:50

RN I receaved a lettr frō London frō {sic} Darks of my Cosen march who signified that his house was {stric}ken wth the pox. decēb 17 ♃ h. 5. 50 p m 1618.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 230, f. 116r (bottom left part of page)

Mr Thomas Marsh [March] [the elder] (PERSON4816)Anonymous (PERSONGRP72)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Pox)

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE47937: Decumbiture for Mrs Elizabeth Barrowe (PERSON27809)

Question asked by Mr Edward Barrowe (PERSON27806) on 4 December 1618 at 11:00

RN Elis. Barrow began first of all to swound novēb. 29 ☉ hor 6. p m 1618. like an Epilepsy

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 107r (upper left part of page)

Mr Edward Barrowe (PERSON27806)Mrs Elizabeth Barrowe (PERSON27809)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Dizzy and/or faint (Swooning)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Falling sickness)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment Outcome(s)Astrological Chart

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE47951: Horary consultation concerning Monson (PERSON33308)

Question asked by the patient on 9 December 1618 at 11:45

RN Sr Will. Monson his Daughter y 12. Decēb. 8 |9| ♂ h. 11. ant ☿ h. 11. \45./ ant m 1618. /strangly handled wth epilepticall fits\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 111r (upper right part of page)

Monson (PERSON33308)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Falling sickness)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Fits and convulsions (Fits)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Strange affliction)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment Outcome(s)Astrological Chart Patient’s death recorded

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-info=Astrological%20chart;f2-date=1610-1619%3A%3A1618%3A%3A12;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllnesses%20%28named%29, accessed 15 March 2025.

Browse casebooks

Search

Forman’s Judgmentes and Napier’s Defence

Reading the casebooks

Who were the practitioners?

Who were the patients?

Using the casebooks

The manuscripts

Casebooks sites

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge