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CASE50256: Decumbiture for an Anonymous (PERSON38783)

Question asked by the patient on 7 February 1620 at 12:30

RN on fryday night about 12 of the clock was taken very strangly backe belly & every where as it were wth huc\coc/kes fryday & satterday night lay as on yt should dete

feb. 4. ♀ h. 12. at night

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 127r (bottom right part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON38783)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil  (Strange affliction)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (BackBelly)

Medical >Parts of the body >Whole body  (Everywhere )

Medical >Symptoms (specified) (Hiccups)

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

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CASE68969: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON40962)

Question asked by the patient on 14 July 1629 at 13:30

RN A poor bagger womā, for an rising most fearfull chest head rūning vp & downe in all tꝭ of her body to her feete & toes

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 406, f. 98r (upper left part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON40962)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Nausea and vomiting (Rising)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Chest)

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

Medical >Parts of the body >Whole body  (Everywhere )

Medical >Witchcraft and devil  (Witchcraft suffered (medical))

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment 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-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AWhole%20body%3A%3AEverywhere;f2-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWitchcraft%20and%20devil, accessed 3 April 2025.

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