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CASE63237: Decumbiture for Robert Burgess (PERSON45255)

Question asked by the patient on 16 February 1627 at 12:50

RN Rob Burges {illeg}|3|6 y I|f|eb 16 ♀ h. 12 50 p m 1627.

head ioynts & back & now speachles sinc sonday about sonset. |he sent feb 16 ♀. h. 1. p m 1627|1

[Partial Astrological Chart]

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘speachles’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 366r (upper right part of page)

Robert Burgess (PERSON45255)

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

Medical >Parts of the body >Limbs and joints  (Joints)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso (Back)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Speech problems  (Cannot speak)

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

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CASE11801: Decumbiture for Mrs Frances Lea [Vines] (PERSON16711)

Question asked by the patient between 14 November 1598 and 15 November 1598

RN Mres Vines took her sicknes at Piddington 30 of maye die ♂ h. betwixt 9. & 10 walking at night in her orcharde. & it tooke away her speache & brought a palsy in her side & armes. shee had no vse of her lims. 1598. die ♂ h. 9. 30 mi. p m maij 30. 1598.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘a palsye.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 52v (upper left part of page)

Mrs Frances Lea [Vines] (PERSON16711)

Medical >Illness (general) (Sickness)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Speech problems  (Cannot speak)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed (PalsyCannot use part)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso (Side(s))

Medical >Parts of the body >Limbs and joints  (ArmsLimbs)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) 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-querent-age-band=030-039;f2-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ALimbs%20and%20joints;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ASpeech%20problems, accessed 11 January 2025.

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