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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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CASE58806: Decumbiture for Mary Marshal (PERSON54372)

Question asked by the patient on 23 July 1624 at 08:00

RN Iuly 10 first taken of late wth a gydynes 27 h 8 ant m & Iuly 22 in h. 9 ant m wth a gydynes & could neyther stand nor goe

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 22Ar (bottom right part of page)

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CASE57827: Horary consultation concerning Goody Twynny (PERSON60645)

Question asked by the patient on 4 March 1624 at 13:39

RN Goody Twynye of Byssetour 35 y march 4 {illeg}|| h 1. 39 p m 1624 |a palsy.|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 96v (upper left part of page)

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CASE58172: Horary consultation concerning Susan Fisher (PERSON49025)

Question asked by the patient on 13 April 1624 at 10:38

RN Susan fisher of Edgborough 35 y. Ap 13 \/ h 10 30|8| ant m. 1624 /vide Ap. 5/ 2 y lame in her ioynts\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 147v (upper right part of page)

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CASE58342: Horary consultation concerning Goody Margaret Ashby (PERSON18911)

Question asked by the patient on 1 May 1624 at 13:38

RN Marg Ashbee of Newp 52 y May 1. h {sic} hor. 1. 38 p m 1624. lame in her hucklebone day & night sinc St Peters Day last./

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 172v (bottom part of page)

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CASE59517: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Jane Prescot (PERSON57056)

Question asked by the patient on 10 December 1624 at 10:30

RN Mres Iane Prescot of London newly come to London & tak{ing}|en| wth her shaking fits yet suddenly well would know wheathr best to leave her house at london & to dwell reture {sic} to Dwell into the country Decēb. 10 h. 10 30 ant m 1624

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 123v (upper left part of page)

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CASE57561: Horary consultation concerning Mr Oliver Boteler (PERSON28235)

Question asked by Lady Anne Boteler [Farrar] [Butler] (PERSON28242) on 3 January 1624 at 11:45

RN The lady \An/ Butler for her mr Oliver Butler 9 y next march bone {sic} 28 or 29 about 12 & on in the night. of Harolde sent to me for this child Ian 3 h {sic} hor 11. 45 ant m 1623 {sic}. extree {sic} weake & feeble & cā take no physick taken wth strang fits plucking his \right/ syde & rūneth to his back being holden harde & an extree {sic} cough almost halfe a yere. & is pyned & cā not stand nor goe Ill tong suspected

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 53r (upper right part of page)

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CASE59324: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Orpin (PERSON33818)

Question asked by the patient on 18 October 1624 at 13:20

RN Or Eliz Orpyn of Hanslop 25|3| y \whi weddens whit/ octob 18 {illeg}|| h. 1. 20 p m 1624

weddensd whitson weeke 23 y kings evill lame & swelled in her fingers ill in her brayne before mutch phys & dyet drinke.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 94v (upper left part of page)

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CASE57900: Horary consultation concerning Mr Oliver Boteler (PERSON28235) and Ursula Clark (PERSON10635)

Question asked by Lady Jane Boteler (PERSON28244) on 13 March 1624 at 12:30

RN The lady Butler touching her child yt is well amended of his fits ye{d}|t| weake & not able to goe feets & legs swell still & cānot sleepe a weeke togeathr till after a eleaven in ye morning |marh {sic} 13 h {sic} h 12 30 p m 1624| sent for her neighb vrsula Clarke 50 y March 13 h {sic} hor. 12. 30 p m 1624

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 108r (upper right part of page)

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CASE57951: Horary consultation concerning Mary Wells (PERSON61403)

Question asked by the patient on 20 March 1624 at 11:00

RN Mary Wels of fænystratford 50 y march. 20 h {sic} hor 11 ant m. 1624. |her crowne back gnawen a gnawing about a great trembling| |a burning at her hart|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 115r (bottom 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?f12-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ALame%2C%20numb%20or%20paralysed;f13-querent-sex=Female;f14-date=1620-1629%3A%3A1624, accessed 31 May 2025.