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CASE48272: Horary consultation concerning Anne Smith (PERSON35503)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38552) on 20 February 1619 at 15:00

RN An Smyth of Stony stratford 30 y mayed {sic} feb. 20 h {sic} hor 3. p m. 1619. 12 days sick. lyeth like a Chisone {sic} child all the day & always at night behave her selfe like a bedlome & hath in her mad fits cut of a great peece of her tongue cānot sleepe these 12 days but lyeth broad awake

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 177r (upper left part of page)

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CASE58578: Horary consultation concerning Robert Mun (PERSON55086)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39913) on 1 June 1624 at 07:20

RN Robert Muns of Maldene a yere & 3 quaters {sic} idle headed {f} squeaketh rageth & cānot sleepe & wrigeth the body. Iune 1. h 7. 20 ant m 1624

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 208v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE64602: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Horrell (PERSON51887)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40516) on 17 September 1627 at 07:30

RN Elis Hurrell of Barton by Cambridge a widow 60 y sept 17. h. 7 30 ant m. 1627. Distracted of her wits sinc mydsomer. Doth Will curse & talk continually & be doing of some ill except she be tyed & will teare her cloathes & is senceles. fretfull & furious & cā sleepe litle light headed1

[Astrological Chart]

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1 ‘frentick senceles & furious’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 216r (upper right part of page)

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-sex=Unknown;f2-practitioner-is-patient=No;f3-practitioner-is-querent=No;f4-recipe=No;f5-practice=Napier;f6-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind%3A%3ASleeplessness%20%28passions%29, accessed 2 May 2024.