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CASE23061: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Edith Yelverton (PERSON62447)

Question asked by the patient on 27 September 1630 at 17:00

RN Mres Edith \Edith/ Elverton |of Easton maudit|18. y. Septēb: 27. h. 5. p m 1630.

very leane full of blood

every yere hath a bleatch breaking out

now hath the Chingles |a rūning on her left breast| /hath vsed cats blood\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 238, f. 159v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE47170: Horary consultation concerning Goody Welborne (PERSON36617) and Anonymous (PERSONGRP70)

Question asked by Goody Welborne (PERSON36617) on 27 July 1618 at 10:00

RN Goody wilburne of Stony stratford 45 y Iuly 27 . h. 10. ant m 1618 for ye scabbed wreches of newp Stony stratford |belly & backe like {thwigs}|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 199r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE13019: Horary consultation concerning Old Goody Knight (PERSON13467)

Question asked by the patient on 21 January 1600 at 17:30

RN Old Goody Knight the hogherds wife her body & leg pitiously broken out rawe & mangy in her bodye craved a remedy Ian 21 die h. 5. 30 p m 1600 ever sinc St Steaphen

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 258v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE27055: Horary consultation concerning Alice Bignell (PERSON19036)

Question asked by the patient on 5 April 1606 at 11:00

RN Alce Bignell of Densanger 23 y. Apr 5. hor. 11 ant m 1606

shee suckleth her child hath had something breding in her breast.

her breast vndr full of bleath {sic}

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 215, f. 92v (bottom left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE11832: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Mary Conny (PERSON10817)

Question asked by the patient on 30 November 1598 at 14:00

RN Mres Cony of Newporte. for the heate & burning of her face pimpled a lean spare woman feareth the heate of her liver. Novemb 30. die h. 2. 45 mi p m. 1598. with child neere her time & well delivered

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 58v (upper right part of page)

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CASE13621: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Isabel Brocket (PERSON10059)

Question asked by the patient on 29 March 1603 between 10:00 and 12:30

RN Mres Isabella Brocket 30 y for her stomack & pimpels in face & chin ceeding of o{bstru}ctions.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 197, f. 14r, f. 13v (f. 14r bottom right, and f. 13v bottom right)

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CASE11872: Horary consultation concerning Mary Knight (PERSON13494)

Question asked by the patient and Knight (PERSON13466) on 12 December 1598 at 12:39

RN Mary Knight of Newport 12 yeres old at Easter Deafe this 8 yeres. for 4 yeres well. hearethe very hardly & at some times heareth better thē other her eares run & then shee heareth best shee came wth her mother this 12 of Decēbr die h. 10 12. 39. 1598. of a very pale Colour. a drye huske & a bad stomack breaketh & {illeg}|out &| looketh ill.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 66r (upper right part of page)

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CASE71530: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Priscilla Barnes (PERSON43588)

Question asked by the patient on 12 March 1631 at 13:00

RN Mres prscilla Barnes. 25. y mayed {sic} a weeke after Miklemas b march 12. h {sic} hor. 1. p m 163i.

a good vryne but thin

hed & back a bout a fortnight a bad stomack & weake troubled wth many heates & red pimples

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 232, p. 163 (upper left part of page)

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CASE50666: Horary consultation concerning Mr Dr James [Justice of the Peace] (PERSON52432)

Question asked by Mrs James (PERSON52439) on 20 April 1620 at 15:20

RN D Iames of Oxford st|ran|gly {sic} \straungly/ taken wth a palsye on the left syde of the face hand & leg taken at church & great red blatches in t|H|is fac & bodye & his ey swelling & f|H|is face a yere before & sinc he contenting certen sup witches & on being acquitted he felt his strange stitch on his s {sic} left syde by fits he supposeth yt the womā susp for a witch but quitted by the Iudges did hurte him the 24 of feb. sep a ap yt night at sup first taken. had his first fit after he talked wth mr Rob. Conye. feb 18. in ye after noone his first fit but his worst fit the 24 of feb when the sup witch was acquitted/

Mres Iames mentioned Mr Doctor Iames |of oxford| Ap. 20 h. 3. 20 p m. 1620 /she related all at this tyme/\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 414, f. 5r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE16946: Horary consultation concerning Jane Walbank (PERSON16730)

Question asked by the patient on 18 May 1602 at 09:36

RN wheathr her Daught Iane walbancke 15. y maij 18 h. 9. 36. ant m 1602 armes shoulders blewe spots leeke scabs on her legs.1

Notes:

1 ‘back head shoulders armes.’ supralinear

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 48r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE47058: Horary consultation concerning George Gregory (PERSON12394)

Question asked by the patient on 11 July 1618 at 08:00

RN Georg Gregorye. of Eversyle 48 y Iuly. 11. {illeg}|h| hor. 8 ant m 1618 body full of tetters very dry

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 176r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE55056: Horary consultation concerning Mr Henry Ventris (PERSON60836)

Question asked by the patient on 2 October 1622 at 14:30

RN Mr Henry Ventres 21 y Octob 2. h. 2. 30 p m 1622. hed & face & body breake out in pinples {sic} & dye sodenly had a sore throat & mouth. vseth to bleed mutch at nose.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 76r (upper left part of page)

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CASE17524: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Barbara Coates (PERSON10691)

Question asked by the patient on 18 July 1602 at 15:00

RN Mres C {sic} Barbara Coates 27. y. of Hanslop. maried 3 y. Iuly 18 hor. 3. p m. 1602.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘face swelled & pimpled & bodye’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 141r (upper left part of page)

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CASE35010: Horary consultation concerning Jane Butcher (PERSON19185)

Question asked by the patient on 27 March 1609 at 15:20

RN Iane butcher of hanslop 19 y march 27 h. 3. 20 p m 1609. hath thē well./ back & armes like tetters & shingles.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 229, f. 328r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE68187: Horary consultation concerning Reade (PERSON57394)

Question asked by the patient on 15 April 1629 at 14:00

RN Rhead of \litle/ Linford 27 Ap 15 h. 2 p m. 1629 for a surfet & now a great breaking out in his hands & body wth scabs & heate

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 407, f. 139r (upper right part of page)

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CASE70467: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Anne Hughes (PERSON52080)

Question asked by the patient on 12 April 1630 at 09:20

RN mres An Hughes 19. Ap 12 . h. 9. 20 ant m. 1630 subiect to scabs & pustles in her face & body |ring worms salt flegm|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 248 (bottom right part of page)

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CASE11843: Horary consultation concerning Clemence Nashe (PERSON14336)

Question asked by the patient on 4 December 1598 at 12:15

RN Clement Nash servant to Iohn Connyngham 22 yeres old tooke her first on tuesday night qu about 8 a clock at night a crick {sic} \ache/ in her baccke \& lims./ yt maketh her stoope & goe Double. troubled wth a great heate of her stomack yt it maketh her lips to break out he {sic} first water made in ye morning red. the next water of a reasonable good colour. the wench of a ruddy face well colourd & fat. quait {sic} remediū Decēb. 4. die . h. 12. 15. mi. 1598. of Newport

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 61r (upper left part of page)

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CASE70913: Horary consultation concerning William Story (PERSON59714) and Margaret Wyn (PERSON62414)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON41199) on 25 May 1630 at 18:20

RN Williā Stoary of St Albions 12 y the 30 of August next twixt 6 & 7 in ye morning at Saraz{ings} head about Easter was 12 monthe may 25. h 6 20 a|p| m 1630.

her mayd cōtinth {sic} Lame & hath spots about her thighs & Knees.

his legs

the child cōplayneth of his loynes& legs & of a payne of his Left syde & also hath a dry cough.

[Astrological Chart]

wheathr fit to make an issue Is lame & goeth wth payne

was prty well sinc Easter was a twelfmonth when & where.

will. Stoary 12 y may 25 h. 6. 30 p m 1630

Lame in his loyns Legs & left syde payned

There mayden yt was Lame. Marg. Wynne at the same tyme.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, pp. 406-407 (p. 406 bottom right, p. 406 bottom left, and p. 407 upper left)

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CASE77396: Horary consultation concerning William Dymmingsdale (PERSON48243)

Question asked by the patient on 25 May 1633 at 09:30

RN Williā Dymmingsdale of Hutchin 58 y may 25 h {sic} hor 9 30 ant m. 1633.

Tooke a surfet a cough cānot eate nor drink but is sick after meate vntill it hath made him to cast it swelled in his belly almost every night /his thigh was broken\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 211, p. 166 (middle centre, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE19952: Horary consultation concerning Henry Lane (PERSON13555)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON18497) on 10 October 1601 at 12:20

RN Henry Lane of Lowten 7 y. Octob. 10 hor 12. 20 ant. p m. 160i troubled wth red drye scurfe in his armes & legs.

taken as is supposed wth eating of a spyder cut into two peeces on halfe on his butter hath broke out anon after as it were in a lepry scurfe hath continued this two yeres be some speckes on his bodye.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 209r (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-treatment=Yes;f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso;f4-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AWhole%20body%3A%3ASkin, accessed 19 February 2025.