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CASE16767: Horary consultation concerning Old John Smith (PERSON15895)

Question asked by the patient on 31 March 1602 at 09:40

RN Iohn Smyth of Milton Harnes 80 y Martij 31. hor 9. 40 ant m 1602.

for a great swelling in his bodye legs & armes & hands very hot.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 23r (upper right part of page)

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CASE48015: Horary consultation concerning Susan Barnwell (PERSON27796)

Question asked by the patient on 1 January 1619 at 16:20

RN Susan Barnewell \of Barton by kettring/ of 39 y Ian. 1. h. 4. 20 p m 1618 {sic} ill sinc whitsontyde in her loynes thigs lims & legs & swelled in her legs & foote & is extreme hot & is sorely twitched in her hams as if on pluckt her

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 125r (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE12836: Horary consultation concerning John Lane (PERSON13556)

Question asked by the patient on 22 October 1599 at 12:30

RN Iohn Lane of Shenly. 62. Octob. 22 die h. 12. 30. hot back & reanes & huckbone yt it maketh him vomitte.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 223r (upper right part of page)

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CASE74092: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Margaret Catesby (PERSON45757)

Question asked by the patient on 21 March 1632 at 13:30

RN Mres Margaret Catesbe now soiourning at Hardmead 23 y 4 childrē youngest a quarter of a yere march. 21. h. 1 30 p m 1632.

vtrū gravida. stomack ill |a heate in her hand & purpels.| 5 child living

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 13 (upper right part of page)

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CASE11767: Horary consultation concerning Harry Gooding (PERSON12227)

Question asked by Gooding (PERSON12226) on 29 October 1598 at 13:00

RN Harry Goodin taken lame in his left leg not swollen he cannot styrre his right side. in his leg & huck bone he layd in the fild Downe & being hote tooke a colde. this day or monday was sennet 17 d 16 last Christmas eve. 1598. pater filio et filius oravit patrē. vt me consulet morbo. Octob. 29 die h. 1. 1598. it took him in the fild as if it were prickt with nales. he cryeth out whē it is touched.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 45v (upper left part of page)

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CASE10926: Horary consultation concerning Margaret Collins (PERSON10769)

Question asked by the patient on 23 June 1600 at 07:45

RN Margaret Collings 50 y. a sickly woman Iune 22|3| die h. 7. 45. ant m. 1600 lay in her head & nowe gone into her thighes / wonderfully hote.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 121r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12118: Horary consultation concerning Margaret Miller (PERSON14190)

Question asked by the patient on 21 March 1599 at 11:45

RN Margaret Miller a widow at Calverton 60 yeres old in her lims troubled wth a great heate & sweate. 2i of March. die h. 11. 30|45| ant m. 1599. doubteth of her death.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 108r (upper right part of page)

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CASE46283: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON32228)

Question asked by Mr George Kempton (PERSON32223) on 28 March 1618 at 15:40

RN my Cosen Georg for his wife mach {sic} 28 {}|h| {sic} hor. 3. 40 p m 1618. boath her hads {sic} very hot & drye

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 201, f. 37v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE12356: Horary consultation concerning Arthur Smith (PERSON15876)

Question asked by the patient on 1 May 1599 at 09:30

RN Arthur Smithe of Woulverton. 36. payned in the bodye nowe & lims & knees. & hath a great hote stomack and mutch bounde. arms this 7 yeres & hath spent mutch monye. faynt & feeble. maij 1. die h. 9. {illeg}|3|0. ant m. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 145v (upper right part of page)

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CASE10651: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON8934)

Question asked by the patient on 22 May 1600 at 12:30

RN Mr Hipwels Kinswomā newly come to him 24. May. 23|2| die h. 12. 30 ant m {sic}. 1600

for a swelling in her body armes legs. burning hot.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 79v (upper left part of page)

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CASE11383: Horary consultation concerning Old Father John Bechino [Pinner] (PERSON9584)

Question asked by the patient on 8 November 1600 at 11:50

RN Iohn Bechinel of Walten. 60 y. payned in the reanes of his back & left syde leeke a harde cake it rūneth vp into armes & shoulders. wth pricking & heate. Novemb 8 die 11. 46|5{0}| ant m. 1600

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 190v (upper left part of page)

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CASE12198: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Clark (PERSON10594)

Question asked by the patient on 3 April 1599 at 09:15

RN Elisabeth Clarke 30 yeres vnmaried ever sinc Christmas hed backe chest a few on satterday on sunday had not her Courses currantly sinc Christ. sick at hart hoven in her chest. shoulders & hed. casteth black geare leek browne black paper leeke rags yt is her flowers arising. Apr. 3 die h. 9. 15. 1599. cannot rest in her bed hath a wonderfull red colour & is hot.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 120r (upper right part of page)

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CASE11034: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Bricknell (PERSON9990)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSONGRP12) on 17 July 1600 at 11:00

RN Thomas Gr Bricknell of hardmead his frinds at Simpson. Iuly the 17 die h. 11 ant m. 1600 over heate his legs & breake out.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 136v (upper left part of page)

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CASE53661: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Thomasin Gray [Old Mrs Gray] (PERSON50270) and Ellen [Eleanor] Lattyn (PERSON53402) and Lady Kniveton (PERSON53180)

Question asked by Mrs Thomasin Gray [Old Mrs Gray] (PERSON50270) on 7 March 1622 at 09:30

RN Mres Gray of Hincksworth. 56 y march 7 h. 9. 30 ant m. 1622.

is was mended of her leg & the swelling but then her head & eys were ill but sinc of late it brake agayne is prty well amended her leg i {sic} Issueth blod & hath always so done. |x y sinc had a bloody water./|

would know wheathr the humour be hot.

And wheathr an Issue will doe her serv. \nell/ good & when. craveth no physick but m|b|y ridgmont.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 16r (upper left part of page)

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CASE58675: Horary consultation concerning Jane Brown (PERSON45054)

Question asked by the patient on 30 June 1624 at 09:20

RN {Ia}ne Browne of Adington {2}9. y christ Iuly \Iune Iuly/ 20. 1595. sent to me Iuly Iune 30 h. 9. 20 ant m 1624 /neaver had child.\1

[Astrological Chart]

Iane Browne of Adin{gton} 29. y. Iune 30 h 19. 20 a{nt} m. 1624. paraliticall tormented wth heate & a burning payne in her belly & shooting into her legs & belly hath no vse of her lims cā not stand nor goe /sweateth mutch.\

Notes:

1 ‘lame miserablely tormēted wth raging payns & convuls in her legs day & night’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 3r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE12604: Horary consultation concerning Gillian Johnson [Mother Johnson] (PERSON13248)

Question asked by the patient on 29 August 1599 at 12:30

RN Gilli{o|a|}n g|I|aunsen of T|f|illgrave 54. August 29 die h. 12. 30. 1599. for a flushing heate back legs.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 188r (upper right 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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CASE12145: Horary consultation concerning Thomasin Nailor (PERSON14330)

Question asked by the patient on 26 March 1599 at 16:50

RN Tomson Nayler of Codomor in Whaddon chase for her hed. 40. had not her termes never since {illeg} {sic} Christmas. a flushing heate in her hed & shoulders. sweate. 26 of March. die {2}|4|. 50. mi.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 112v (upper left part of page)

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CASE12278: Horary consultation concerning Amy Fuller (PERSON11987)

Question asked by the patient on 23 April 1599 at 14:50

RN Amy fuller 30. her \right/ shoulder right leg. & her hand hath as it were a crampe & of late broken out. swelled & blistered & very hot & a thin face but well coloored her toes will not styrre Apr. 23. die h. 2. 50. m p m. 1599. whitsontide wilbe a twelmoneth. of Cranfild.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 134r (upper left 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?f10-how-did-it-take-place=Unclear%3A%3AAt%20unspecified%20location;f13-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ALimbs%20and%20joints;f14-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ABurning%20and%20inflamed%3A%3AHot, accessed 10 March 2025.