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CASE12864: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Lindly (PERSON13717)

Question asked by the patient on 29 November 1599 at 08:30

RN a {sic} Elisabeth Lindly 60 yeres old falleth onc a weeke & knoweth not howe but falleth sine sensu. & so recovereth wthout any knowledg therof. novemb 29 die ♃ h. 8. 30 ant m. 1599.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 232r (bottom left part of page)

Elizabeth Lindly (PERSON13717)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Falling sickness )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218)

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CASE40728: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON36976)

Question asked by Mr John Blackshowe (PERSON22136) on 3 January 1613 at 12:15

RN Iohn Blackshaw for an old womā taken wth often swounding in the night like the falling sickness Ian 3. ☉ h. 12. 15. p. m 1612. {sic} /1613\. /60 y.\ |of Rudgmont.|1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘a swounding epilepsia.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 199, f. 13r (upper right part of page)

Mr John Blackshowe (PERSON22136)Anonymous (PERSON36976)

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

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Falling sickness )

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

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-patient-sex=Female;f2-language=Latin;f3-number-of-querents=Single%20querent;f4-practitioner-is-querent=No;f5-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllnesses%20%28named%29%3A%3AFalling%20sickness;f6-patient-age-band=060-069, accessed 2 October 2024.

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