Casebooks

RN Goody Blea of this towne Novēb. 10. ♀ h. 9. ant m. 16i5

\hath a loosenes/ burning feaver faynt feeble sent to me for a cordiall

RN Dye Right of Olny 35 \35/. y. had 2 child at on birth. a month sinc Iuly 3. h. 11 30 ant m 1630 |newly brought a bed of 2 child| /boath legs excedingly swelled white {marck} very hard\ /a hot rheume at her mouth & so scalding\

RW Tho: Blunt of Hardingston parish. y. 35. d. ♀ h: 6. {illeg}|2|0. ant: m: Martij 17. 1620. troubled with fleagme & vomiteth. rayseth sometimes bloud with his fleagme. paynd in his side¹

RN my lady came \Maunsell/ showed me her wat^r Ian 24 ♀ h 10. 30 ant m. 1606. who was at my lady Chaynes howse at Drayton 35 y. a long visage leane & yellowish full of melanch. long sick & casteth every foote mutch reds. &|w|^ch trouble her mutch. & cōtinew long also whitꝭ but the {sic} weaken not yet have cōtinewed longe w^ch come 3 days before the red. casteth mutch faynt & feeble mutch wynd costive /Lady Maunsell. 35 y.\

RN Edward Morrish of Kempson. 35 y may 20. ♂ h. 10. 25. ant m. 1606.¹

RN Eliz. Toby of Layton. 35 y octob. 21. ♀. h. 12. 50 ant m 163i

very Costive stoppage a cōtinuall coughing |hath had 11 child & 6 living quærit an sit gravida not sick.|

RN my Cosen Warren \Reeve/ sent me a letter Ian 25 h {sic} hor 3 \25/ p m 1623 last weeke voyded vp blood 3 tymes. to the quantity of halfe a pynt is very ill feaversh {sic} weake & feeble & cānot slepe

desyrous of some cordiall & of my advice

RN Michael Broth^r of luton 35 y Apr. 6. ♀ h. 1. 15. p m 1604. sinocha et putrida febris multa vrina turbida lutea|i| coloris nō pet dormire

RN Mres Elis Mason of Gransdon 35 y Ap. 1. ♀ h. 6 p m 1631 /neaver maryed, wasted & cōsumed\

RN M^r Iohn lea sent his water at troubled with an ague. & a reume. 20 of March. die ♂ h. 7. 20 ant m. 1599. \feareth a palsye cold in his feete./

RN Elisabeth Drawater of Islip. by Thropson 35 y. maij 17 ☾ hor 8. 50 ant m. 1602. mutch greefe a fistula in her back rūing a great fluxe.

RN M^r Duncōbe Iuly 29 51 35 y Iuly 29 ♃ h 2. p m 1630

a long loosnes

RN S^r Iohn vnderhill Came frō Garrenbery of purpose to see me Aug 4. ☿ h. 3. 45 p m. 1630 /hath vtterly lost his hearing.\

RN Will: Hartley of Stonystratford. 35 y Buckinghā may 17 ☿ h. 7. ant m 1615

RN Barnabe {illeg}|B|a\c/kwell of layton 35 y Iune 12 ♀ h. 10. 45 ant m 1618.

he did ride a great iourney & distempered his blood & sinc his face & necke swelled with litle hard wheels & knobs

RN Mres Anne Theede of Reach. 35. y. Ap. 29. ♀. h. 2. 25 p m 1625. by fits a yere like a wynd. 12: y. mayed {sic} no child. |nata Ap. 20. 1589. monday night at Evening a litle after sone set./|

RN francis Bruer of the vp end. 36|5| y octob 3. ☾. h. 8. 45 ant m 1631

vtrū gravida did did {sic} bleed mutch at nose & it was stopt w^th Isop & hogsdung applyed to her brow

Chest ill & drye & voyded a long worme at her mouth Is very Drye

her daughter 9 y

RN Iane Osburne of Olny. at Ap. 2. die ☾. h. 10. {illeg}|53|. ant m. 1599.

Iane Osburne of Olny of 35. for a sore back & hart best in the her bed. & nowe taketh her by fits. & burning & sweating. & aches y^t it maketh her sweate shee feareth lest it be her sicknes y^t lyeth at her harte. goeth hard to ground. her child half a yere old. had not her courses nev^r sinc shee was last w^th child & soe shee is nev^r vseth to have thē but frō child to Child. looketh yellowe. Apr. 2. die ☾ h. 10. 52. m. ant m.

M^r. Rous Clopton of Corp. Chri Coll. Oxon 35. y. Mart. 17. ☿. h. 9. p. m. 1630

A greiuous Headache takes him at Midnight sometimes in one te of y^e head & sometimes in y^e other te, but especially in y^e left side of his heade, w^ch makes y^e places outwardly sore where y^e paine hath beene.¹

A continually Noyse in his head w^th a tearinge paine as yf it would pull one skyn from another, w^ch comes sometimes suddenly like a strech, & then is gone in an instant

A dizines in y^e heade & a leapinge, as it were of blacke mothes before his Eyes

This paine hath continued these 6 weekes,

Desires to knowe whether it ceeds from y^e stomack or spleene, from a cold or{illeg} hote cause

Hath beene let Bloud in y^e right arme, & vnder the tongue, & in y^e forehead, beeinge tolde by the Physitian y^this greife was caused by fullnes of Bloud

Hath taken Pills & Electuaryes sundry times, but his paine noethinge deminished

Hath for many years beene troubled w^th a soundinge & noyse in his head, but neuer w^th paine till nowe Feareth a Disposition to the Palsye or Apoplexye Desires Receits & Directions to preuent these two capitall Dangers.

GJ Robert Russell of great Brickhi{ll} 35 y. Decemb. 4 ♂ ho. 8. 20 a m 1604

A payne at his hart and stomake liver and longꝭ shortwynded some part of his stoole very hard & some t loose.