Casebooks

RW Laurence Iuckkerby of Layton. y. 38. d. ♂ h: 22. 55. ant. m. Martij 14 1620. put on a shirte not ayred on morninge, & was all that \day/ after it cold & aguish & at night had a great payne with an extreeme stick in his ryght side. can take nothing but liquid matter, & yet hee vomiteth vp that againe If hee doth but stirre his sticke taketh him extreamely. hee is very faynt.

RN Agnys Olny 38 y of Tebworthe in Chalgrave maij 19. ☿ hor. 9. 45. ant m. 1602. /maritus  vxore furiosa et insaniētē sencles hath no vse of her wits. h {sic} light headed\ /a frenticke woman mad & laugh & inc mistermeth.\

RN Mres francis Digbye S^r Evarets sister nata the tuesday before the 30 of novēb^r. before 7 in y^e morning /1588.\ send for my Directions may 1. hhor {sic} 4. 40 p m 1619. /vnmayed {sic}\ |30 y|

mutch troubled w^th melanch pass apt to weep w^thout any iust case.

nata Octob 29 ♂ h. 7. ant m 1588. a great heavynes in y^e stomacke & a beating & trembling at the hart. w^th a |continuall| payne at her hart at y^t tyme of all on her left syde

SRN Iohn Haster of Milton y. 30. d. ☿. h. 8. ant m Aug. 28. 1633. no stomacke heaued & swelled in his chest & belly. vrine reasonably good. RN was wont to bleed but hath not this yere

RN Mary Smyth of Stawton 20 myles 30 y Ap 27. ♂ h. 10. 15 ant m 1619 her head shaketh a fortnight or 3 \shaking/ palsy. mother backe thighꝭ as if they should be torne but her head exceding cold.

head cold

vryne very good. a very good stomacke yet very faynt. mutch troubled w^th wynd 2 y. sinc had a boy. hath thought her selfe twice to be w^th child w^thin this twelfemonthe. nescit an sit gravida

M^r. Rous Clopton of Corp. Chri Coll. Oxon 35. y. Mart. 17. ☿. h. 9. p. m. 1630

A greiuous Headache takes him at Midnight sometimes in one te of y^e head & sometimes in y^e other te, but especially in y^e left side of his heade, w^ch makes y^e places outwardly sore where y^e paine hath beene.¹

A continually Noyse in his head w^th a tearinge paine as yf it would pull one skyn from another, w^ch comes sometimes suddenly like a strech, & then is gone in an instant

A dizines in y^e heade & a leapinge, as it were of blacke mothes before his Eyes

This paine hath continued these 6 weekes,

Desires to knowe whether it ceeds from y^e stomack or spleene, from a cold or{illeg} hote cause

Hath beene let Bloud in y^e right arme, & vnder the tongue, & in y^e forehead, beeinge tolde by the Physitian y^this greife was caused by fullnes of Bloud

Hath taken Pills & Electuaryes sundry times, but his paine noethinge deminished

Hath for many years beene troubled w^th a soundinge & noyse in his head, but neuer w^th paine till nowe Feareth a Disposition to the Palsye or Apoplexye Desires Receits & Directions to preuent these two capitall Dangers.

RN Agnes Rutland of Newnton Longfild. 53. sick this day fortnight. payned in her hed harte & all the body over. cannot abide vp: costive onc in 2 or 3 days. maij 1. die ♂ h. 12. 10. m. 1599.

Ambrose Rudland of Newton her husband. a payne in his stomack & eyes. a Corpulent man & fully faced. eodem tempore/

Iohn Rutland w^th a payne in his Chest & stomacke wyndye & a stitch in his syde

RN Elisabeth Purden of puddington 36 y. sicke hath had her sicknes to mitch {sic}. faynt & feeble. y^t w^ch cōmeth frō her very blacke flowers wat^r to muth {sic} thin coloured. paynd head & sydes & hath menses immodices/

RN Mres Burchmore of Tottell end 33 yeres Ian. 14 die ☾ h. 12. habet albos et rubeos successive stomack hed backe. weake of a yellowe coloure. a candell w^th cymamon {sic} stayeth her whitꝭ when nothing els will troubled with the iaundish & of a yellowish colour.

RN Katherine Grene /25\ first taken w^th \it tooke/ an arising frō her stomack ready to stop her wynd Martij 7. ☿ h. 11. p m 162i |is so sick y^t she cā take no rest.|

It tooke her in her hart & left sy right & short ribs pricking like needles. |suckleth a child halfe a yere old|

TG Sara Bishop of tringe Annos 31. calebs melancholica, dolore capitis cervicis, lateris dextri et stomachi adeo mentis gravedine vexata

RN Robart mathew of whitfild 33 y. sept last Ian. 24. ☾ hor 2. 40 p m. 1603.¹

RW M^ris Nicholls of old stratford y. 38. d. ☾ h: 2. 53. p: m. martij. 20. 1620. Vrina turbida.

RN S^r Iohn Temple Sept: 21. ♀ h. 1. 45 \1. 40/ 2 \1. 40/ p m 1632 / vide 8 Septemb. 18. ♂. 1632\

Ioyce Hall of Hinton by Brackly 35. y. Apr. 8. ☾. h. 1. 20. p m. 1633 vid. Octob. 9 1632 pag. 61

SRN An Pearson of this Towne 32 y. Maij 17.^th ♀ h. 7. 45. p m. 1633.

RN Mathewe Walsore of Buckginham {sic} 30. musicꝯ. may 26 die ☾ h. 1. 3 26. p m. 1600

paynd in his \head &/ chest by reason of a wound receaved but healed w^ch maketh him cast. alwyys {sic} leane somtimes voydeth leeke matter & choler. spade bone of his shoulder perisheth his lungs. & francis Walso|ge|re 28. his wif paynd w^th a windines in her stomacke.

U[1622–4] S^r Thomæ Midletons literæ Redduntur: M^o Richardo Napiero. a{p} Linford. 1624. d. ♃. h. 8. p. Feb. 19 RN /signifying to my lady Earffild that His lady was querysh.\ U[1622–4]

RN Iames Broūswell of Bedford a glover 36 y Iuly 2. ☾. h 9. 15. ant m 16i0

fell sick on fryday last cōplayneth of his hante {sic} rageth & is ill in his brayne/. vxor  marito sine consensu. hath a huske

RN Russell M^r leyes Leas mā 34 y Octob 18 ♂ h. 4. 35 p m 1608 troubled w^th a great itching & pimples & spots & drye vp sodenly troubled also w^th the gonorrhea renū