Casebooks

RN My Cosen Marsh the older sent me a kind letter to signify y^t after my clyster & blood letting she was well for 4 days & then payned as before in her hed & arme so greevously betwixt 4 & 5 p m cōnoly {sic} Sept 14. ♀ h. 5. 30 p m 1627 she sent to Cambridg to M^r Crane he gave her a pils|l| & also a clyster

had the horse leaches & they were {illeg} naught.

took my pils & Dyet drink & did well for the tyme

her Daughter fond mtch {sic} good by her playster Desyreth a nother & a recept of it

RN M^r Stowe \the Surgion/ for an Inv{ete}rate headach & mela{nch} pyneth & a great rhe{ume} May 25. ♀ h. 2. p m 162i

RN The Lady Longeville new come to Billen about on weddensday last sent h a letter to me Iuly 26 ♀. h. 2. p m 1622

how her courses be broken downe & y^t her hedach is nothing so bad as it was wont.

GJ Her husband hath a fistula in his right syde. 63 y. old Sent to know whether he were best to go to Clementꝭ of Ownde{l} or what course he were best to take. /

RN a litle gyrle 14 y very sick head & stomack my lady gave her aloes & syrope of roses & a vomyt w^th {sic} wrought eight 12 tymes & yet is not mended craveth my consell

M^r Atkins{on} a Phisician came to the E. of Sunderland Ian. 4. ☾. h. 9. 30 ant. m. 1630. & the E. refused to see & speake w^th him

W A Wooman of H{illeg} Ha\r/ssam came for Alce Lea that she might be lett bloud shee rageth & taketh one that shee cannot sleepe \y. 40./ May 21. ♃. hor. 3. 30. P. Mer. 1607.

RN the barber of Newp: Thomas Edmunds 30 y Apr 3. ♀ h. 3. 20 p m 1607 very costive onc in 44 houres voydeth wormes.

RN S^r Th Mydleton May 15 ♃ h. 4 45. p m 1623.

RN An old mydwife came w^th her 60 y novēb. 5 ☾ h 4 p m

RN M^r Bridget Sutton. of Patsthill 20 y. may ☾ h. 4. p. m 1632. |pater sine consensu| light headed & cōmonly senceles.

had physick & was let blood by m^r Iams yet not the better.

RN I receaved a letter from Mres Shatbolt & the lady Aug. 11. ☉ h. 5. 30 p m 1633

Mres Shatbolt who is to goe into the Contry craveth a letter onc a fortnight & adviseth me to Dirct my lett^r to on M^r Darnell the Apothecary in Souper Lane though but onc a fortnight.

RN Alce Butler of Litlington 2{9}|4| Ap 19 die ♄ h. 3 p m. \harte/ a swelling in her bodye & eyes

Alce Butler for her great swelling & heving aft^r child^r birthe

RW Peircie Crouch of Toceter y: 33 \33/ d. ☾. h: 2. p: m: Nouemb. 20. 1620. Burneth verie much in her stomacke \bodie/ & mouth. hath had much physicke frō M^r Iames yet not the better. was also let blood. can take no rest. had a Clyster lately. ill a moneth. keepe her bed a fortnight

M^rs. Norwood sent her Lady Letter for the Lady Dunsmores Daughter. Oct. 18 ♀. h. 12. 15. pm. 1633

RN ha\r/d to vomyt vppō any occasion D Gifford & d^r Cadymā her former physitions for the greene sicknes after the {sic} had made triall of of {sic} vomyts & saw how vntowardly it wrought followed some other course/

desyreth vomyt purg rath^r then vomyts to clense her hot & drye stomack.

RN M^r marsh for a neighbour a Smyth. y^t w^th a kick hath his C{illeg}|bow| {sic} bowels out novēb 1. ♀ h. 3. p m 1633.

wilbe cut for it as a newp surgion vndertaketh for 5 pounds.

wheath^r good to cut him for his bowels

RN M^r Iohn Vnderhill quærit vtrū medicus qui sanationē mittit deo volente efficerit Febr 26|4| ♃ h. 8. 15 p m 1625 |feb. 24|¹

RN M^r Dolling of Exet colledg in Oxf. 16 y devon: ca{illeg}|{me}| to M^r Spicer for his counsell being very sick in his stomacke of longe {tyme} having bene in the Docters hands before almost halfe a yere & was cured by M^r Spicer in 6 or 8 weekes at the most march feb. 6. ♀ h. 9. 30 ant m 1618

RN An Barker of Bedford sept octob. 1. h {sic} hor. 3. 40 p m. 1603.

RN The lady Dickby intreated me to come to Gothurst to confer w^th the Surg about M^r Hall. Octob 21. ☉ h. 7. 20 p m 1610