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CASE25513: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Margaret Johnson (PERSON32167)

Question asked by the patient on 16 October 1610 at 11:00

RN Mres margart {sic} 20|2| y octob 16 ♂ h 11 ant m 16i0 vtrū recup salutē sick of ye mother strangly a longe tyme.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘vide octob 8.’ supralinear

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 239, f. 141v (bottom right part of page)

Mrs Margaret Johnson (PERSON32167)

Medical >Prognosis  (Recovery (‘mend or no’))

Medical >Illness (general)  (Sickness )

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Womb, matrix, mother)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment Astrological Chart

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CASE12182: Horary consultation concerning Alice Cowly (PERSON11000)

Question asked by the patient on 2 April 1599 at 08:15

RN Alce Cowly of Sherington wheathr leekely to live or Die 36. sick ever sinc satterd. was sennet. die ☾ h. 8. 15. ant m. 1599. keepeth her bed. at her harte & in her left leg.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 118r (upper right part of page)

Alice Cowly (PERSON11000)

Medical >Illness (general)  (Sickness Bedridden)

Medical >Prognosis  (Life or death (medical))

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Heart)

Medical >Parts of the body >Limbs and joints (Legs)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment Outcome(s)Astrological Chart Patient’s death recorded

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CASE30502: Horary consultation concerning William Fowler (PERSON23272)

Question asked by Alice Fowler (PERSON23275) on 21 January 1607 at 10:23

RN Wylliā fowler of Wouften of the greene 31 y Ian 21. ☿ h. 22|3|. ant m 1607. /a Carpenter/\

a great cold & a cough harte & hed

whithr he shall scape his wife weeping enquireth hath bene sicke ever since christmas last night very sicke./

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 193, f. 58r (upper left part of page)

Alice Fowler (PERSON23275)William Fowler (PERSON23272)

Medical >Illnesses (named) (Took a cold)

Medical >Symptoms (specified)>Respiratory problems (Cough)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Heart)

Medical >Parts of the body >Head and neck (Head)

Medical >Prognosis  (Life or death (medical))

Medical >Illness (general)  (Sickness )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment Payment

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?f16-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso;f18-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllness%20%28general%29%3A%3ASickness;f19-question-asked=Medical%3A%3APrognosis, accessed 20 March 2025.

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