skip to primary navigationskip to content

Casebooks

Casebooks

Search results

Display  

Showing 1-2 of 2 records with:

  • Yes in treatment 
  • Urine in info 
  • Excerpt in extent-of-transcription 
  • Medical::Parts of the body::Head and neck::Head in question-asked 
  • Unknown in querent-sex 
  • Medical::Symptoms (specified)::Pain and pricking in question-asked 
 Sorted by:  

Refine your results

Document type

Practitioner details

Practice
Practitioner
Number of practitioners
Practitioner is querent
Practitioner is patient

Astrologer details

Astrologer
Practitioner is astrologer
Number of astrologers

Patient details

Patient is
Patient’s age
Number of patients

How & where did it take place

Querent is asking about
Consultation took place with patient's knowledge
Patient's consent to the consultation is
How did it take place

When did it take place

Date
Time of day

Consultation details

Question asked
Case contains information about
Case contains judgment
Case includes treatment information
  • Yes
Case contains recipe

Person asking the question

Querent is
  • Unknown
Querent is identified
Number of querents

Editorial information

Shelfmark
Volume name
Case deleted
Case text damaged
Hands
Language
Extent of transcription
  • Excerpt
manuscript page thumbnail

CASE46642: Decumbiture for Robert Rider (PERSON34748)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38394) on 16 May 1618 at 08:00

RN may 8 at fryday it tooke him about 12 in the night it first tooke him in his legs wth a shooting & sinc it rūneth vp into his hed making him to talke idlely a light head |Is grown starke mad.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 101v (upper left part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON38394)Robert Rider (PERSON34748)

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

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Pain and pricking  (Shooting)

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

Medical >Diseases of the mind (Idle talkLightheaded (passions)Mad)

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE12999: Horary consultation concerning John Hopper (PERSON12948)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSONGRP16) on 15 January 1600 at 09:00

RN T Iohn Hoper 12 y old payned in boath sydes thenc to his hart & then to his head &|w|th a stirring & a soundinge wth all & taketh a way his eye sight: Ian 15. die ♂ ♄ {sic}. 8 50. ant m. 1600.

his former phisick gave him 4|8| stooles. but he sounded that day that they thought he would die. they would have some cordials for him. 1600. at 9 ant m. 1600

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 255v (upper left part of page)

Anonymous (PERSONGRP16)John Hopper (PERSON12948)

Medical >Treatment (Requesting treatment)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Pain and pricking  (Pain)

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

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

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Eye troubles (Sightlessness)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment  PaymentPrevious consultation(s)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-treatment=Yes;f2-info=Urine;f3-extent-of-transcription=Excerpt;f4-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AHead%20and%20neck%3A%3AHead;f5-querent-sex=Unknown;f6-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3APain%20and%20pricking, accessed 12 June 2024.

Browse casebooks

Search

Forman’s Judgmentes and Napier’s Defence

Reading the casebooks

Who were the practitioners?

Who were the patients?

Using the casebooks

The manuscripts

Casebooks sites

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge