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CASE37480: Decumbiture for Elizabeth Eaton (PERSON30061)

Question asked by the patient on 30 January 1611 at 13:45

RN she was strangly taken wth her sicknes & a shak{ing} in her right arme. Sept 21. . h 4. p m 1610. {illeg} held her two houres. & th{en} tooke her a sonday being 23{illeg} in the after noone afore sone set & held all yt ni{ght} vntill ten the next daye h. 4. p m 16i0

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 200, f. 4v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE12423: Horary consultation concerning Joan Cox (PERSON11026)

Question asked by the patient on 10 May 1599 at 11:00

RN Ione Coxs. of Nash. of 70 yeres old. sick this fortnigh {sic} greeved in her hips as a bloode & cannot rest had a shaking & greeveth mutch wth it. a widow woman nevr had Child.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 157r (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE44280: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Margaret [Sansome] Sampson [Goodwife Sampson] (PERSON35050)

Question asked by the patient on 28 January 1617 at 12:30

RN S|G|oody Samson of Harold. 80 y Ian 27 {sic} h. 12. 30 p m 16i7 leg shaketh wonderfully

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 198, f. 61r (upper right part of page)

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CASE11653: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Catherine Blundell [Budoxhed] [Butshed] [Mrs Blundell [the elder]] (PERSON9819)

Question asked by the patient on 28 August 1598 at 17:28

RN Mres Blundell enquireth what is good for her Disease shee is pulled as it were in peeces hart belly sides & swollen in her stomach yt & worse after she hath eaten or Drunken weake & feble in her body & knees. Aug. 28. die h. 5. 28 mi p. m shee shaketh & trembleth body {neck} & {yoin}t

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 21r (upper right part of page)

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CASE54640: Horary consultation concerning Gillian Sansome (PERSON58278) and Sansome (PERSON58275)

Question asked by Gillian Sansome (PERSON58278) on 19 July 1622 at 17:39

RN Gillane Sansome by temple Barre 50 y Iuly 19 h. 5. 39 p m 1622 /strangly taken hands shaking & crooked\

thanks for her Daughters strang recoavery

now for her owne selfe troubled wth heate & cold by fits & sudden flushes flushing in so mutch making her very faynt & to sweate also craveth my helpe.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 222, f. 3r (upper right part of page)

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CASE73904: Decumbiture for Elizabeth Eastone (PERSON48283)

Question asked by the patient on 31 March 1632 at 10:00

RN was first strangly taken feb 28. h. 9. p m 1632.

[Astrological Chart]

fell downe dead & had 2 or 3 fits in an houres & will \doth/ quake skreame & crye

feb 28 h. 8 40 \30/ p m 1632 /of all tes body & toes\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 473 (upper right part of page)

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CASE14911: Horary consultation concerning Alice Lord (PERSON13790)

Question asked by the patient on 5 May 1603 at 10:30

GJ Alice Lord of Kempson 25 y. May 5 ho. 10 30 a m. 1603

Keepeth her bed, trembles very much, A great payne in her backe her right hand and right arme swelled. Cryes of her bones and every where about in great payne./

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 64r (upper left part of page)

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CASE48557: Horary consultation concerning Mary Smith (PERSON35553)

Question asked by the patient on 27 April 1619 at 10:15

RN Mary Smyth of Stawton 20 myles 30 y Ap 27. h. 10. 15 ant m 1619 her head shaketh a fortnight or 3 \shaking/ palsy. mother backe thigh as if they should be torne but her head exceding cold.

head cold

vryne very good. a very good stomacke yet very faynt. mutch troubled wth wynd 2 y. sinc had a boy. hath thought her selfe twice to be wth child wthin this twelfemonthe. nescit an sit gravida

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 339r (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE12075: Horary consultation concerning Joan Burton (PERSON10231)

Question asked by the patient between 13 March 1599 at 14:30 and 14 March 1599 at 11:10

RN Iohn Ione Burten of Olney for her diseased chest 44. yeres. lame in her back. fallen downe into her legs. a great hoven in her belly body back wth cold & a trembling ach in her back.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 101v (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?f14-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ALame%2C%20numb%20or%20paralysed%3A%3ATrembling;f15-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ALimbs%20and%20joints;f16-querent-sex=Female, accessed 18 March 2025.