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CASE50624: Prescription for Mrs Elizabeth Dutton [Bird] (PERSON9759)

Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) on 22 April 1601 at 05:30

RN for Elis Burd of haversha for gr sick. Ap 22 die ☿ hor. 5. 30 ant m. 1601

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 404, f. 84v (bottom right part of page)

Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218)Mrs Elizabeth Dutton [Bird] (PERSON9759)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Green sickness)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Recipe

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CASE73806: Prescription for Lady Anne Twisden (PERSON60638)

Question asked by the patient between 16 February 1632 at 18:00 and 17 February 1632 at 10:30

TG The Lady Twisdons Lozenges for \her/ timpany.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 446 (middle left part of page)

Lady Anne Twisden (PERSON60638)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Tympany)

Practitioner: Mr Theodoricus Gravius (PERSON38835) Treatment

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?f13-document-type=Case%3A%3AEntry%3A%3APrescription;f14-patient-sex=Female;f15-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllnesses%20%28named%29, accessed 11 March 2025.

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