skip to primary navigationskip to content

Casebooks

Casebooks

Search results

Display  

Showing 1-2 of 2 records with:

  • Medical::Symptoms (specified)::Lame, numb or paralysed::Lameness in question-asked 
  • 000-009::5 in patient-age-band 
  • No in practitioner-is-querent 
 Sorted by:  

Refine your results

Document type

Practitioner details

Practice
Practitioner
Number of practitioners
Practitioner is querent
  • No
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
Case contains recipe

Person asking the question

Querent is
Querent is identified
Number of querents

Editorial information

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

CASE61858: Nativity for William Buckmaster (PERSON45135)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40258) on 25 March 1626 at 13:45

RN {illeg}|W|illiā Buckmaster natus march 4          1620.

weddens after Ash weddensday. about 11. ant|p| m 1626 {sic}.

The child is lame & cānot goe. natus febr. 21. ☿ h. 11 a|p| m 1626 162i

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 133v (upper left part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON40258)William Buckmaster (PERSON45135)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed  (Lameness Cannot walk)

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE58616: Nativity for Anne Bunche (PERSON45182)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39918) on 7 June 1624 at 13:00

RN An Bunch of Risdone 5 y & a halfe borne the 11th of sept ☾ about 3 in the after noone 1620. ever sinc she was borne lame in her lims cā speak but dead 1

[Astrological Chart]

cānot speake.

cannot styrre. nor stand litle vse of ye lims./.

Notes:

1 ‘no vse of lims could neavr speake lame borne palsye’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 215v (upper right part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON39918)Anne Bunche (PERSON45182)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed  (Lameness Cannot use partPalsy)

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

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Speech problems (Cannot speak)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) 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?f10-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ALame%2C%20numb%20or%20paralysed%3A%3ALameness;f11-patient-age-band=000-009%3A%3A5;f12-practitioner-is-querent=No, accessed 19 March 2025.

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