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CASE18680: Horary consultation concerning Alice Swan (PERSON16285)

Question asked by the patient on 7 February 1603 between 12:50 and 14:45

RN Alce Swan of Wellingborough 40 y hath no courses back belly & payned as a woman wth child as it were wth the stone.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 221, f. 305r (bottom left part of page)

Alice Swan (PERSON16285)

Medical >Women’s matters >Menstrual problems (No courses)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (BackBelly )

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

Medical >Illnesses (named) >Stone and strangury (Stone)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218)

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CASE24657: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Bodymare (PERSON28185)

Question asked by the patient on 3 May 1610 at 13:00

RN Elis Bodymeere of northāpton. 62 y may. 3. ♃ h. 1. p m 16i0. mutch whitꝭ & reds cholick a gryping in her bellye.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘fluv. alboꝝ sed max mēsiū’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 239, f. 23r (bottom left part of page)

Elizabeth Bodymare (PERSON28185)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Whites, theColic)

Medical >Women’s matters >Menstrual problems (Menstruation)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Gripings, gnawings and stitches (Griping)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Belly )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment 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?f12-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllnesses%20%28named%29;f13-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso%3A%3ABelly;f14-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AWomen%E2%80%99s%20matters, accessed 18 March 2025.

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