Casebooks

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.

GJ Susan Read of Chicheley 31 y. Iuly 9 ♄ ho 3. 10 p. m. 1603

A great pulling in her belly pitt of her stomacke and back non habet menstrua.

RW Iames West of Banbury {y}. 45. d. ♂ h: 6. ant: merid: {S}ept: 25. 1621. extreamely {to}rtured in his backe, belly & {sid}es with paine. his stomacke {ve}rie hot & windie

RW Anne Bell of Hartwell. y 25. d. ☿. h: 9. 50. ant: m: Sept: 14. 1625 non habuit menses  4 hebdomadas. pectore, tergo{q{’}} gra{u}ata. virgo vt ait

TG William Longstaff of Soleberrie 28 y jun. 10 ☾ h. 2. 45. p M. 1633

was taken with a lameness in his back two yeares agoe, & halfe a yeare since it brake vp in his leaft side

SRN My Cozon Clare wright of Southwarke London. 50. y. Decemƀ 21. ♄ {sic}. h. 11. a. m. 1634.

hath kept her bed this sennight a weake bad digestion. her meate rises sometymes like hard egs w^ch causes a great payne both in stomack & backe.

she can eate little or nothing she desires to haue something to strengthen her stomack. /much troubled with a stitch in her right side with a continuall payne in her stomack.\

GJ Margaret Hooke of Stonistratfor{d} 60 y. Aug 18. ho. 1. 30. p m A payne in her backe and at her hart Comes like a stitch Cannot sleepe. / vide Iulij 28

RW Rich: Wells of Woodhill y. 3. d. ♃ h: 1. p: m: Feb: 24. 1620. much payned in the belly, loose bodyed. belly swelleth sometimes: & sometimes in the fit the \priuie/ members are drawne vp into the bodie.

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

RW Dorothy Greene of Perry. y. 30. d. ♂. h: 1. p: m: Apr: 25. 1620. not maryed, hath not had them since Christmasse. pinched in her body & stomacke

RW Henry Eustane of Chinner. y: 28. d. ☿. h: 11. ant: m: Maij. 2. 1627. ill 4 weeks /a great payne runneth vp & downe into his back belly & sometimes into his legs.\

M^rs. Ibbs of Olde in Northampton sh. 66. y. Febr. 23. ♂. h. 1. 40. p. m. 1630

much pained in her Belly, 7 or 8 weekes a very bad stomack, better sometimes, then at other times, worse at nights then dayes, {on} hath many occasions to goe to y^e stoole but can void little or noethinge

Iohn Hitchcock of Turuuye. 40. y. Mar. 11. ♃. h. 1. 30. p. m. 1630 much pained in chest & belly w^th a gripeinge as a winde

Iohn Headsman of Earles Barton 21. y. febr. 25. ♀. h. 1. 10. p m 1631 |married|

complayneth of his back, head & stomack, subiect to melancholy for a weeke

TG Mr Law of whaddon Febr. 19 {☿} h. 10. Mat. 1634.

He tooke his purge w\h/ich he vom{ited} againe & yet gave \him/ 7 stooles.

his paine continueth still in his si{de} backe, had not his fit within these three weekes.

M^r Edmund Vaghan of C. C. C. Oxon. Apr. 11. ☿. h. 9. p m. 1632

Hee tooke not the vomite y^t was sent. 1 because hee is very vnapt to vomite; 2 because his neck is longe & brest somewhat straite; 3 because vomiteinge once by chance by reason of Tobacco blowne into his mouth it brought vp Bloud w^th it, & hath beene y^e cause of all his infirmity. 4 hee suspecteth his Lunges, for w^ch hee thinkes vomiteing is very hurtfull.

Took his purge w^ch gaue him 12 occasions. Hee desireth a Course to bee vsed for his Brest & Lunges.

TG Mr Thomas Weekly of Addington in Northamptonsh. 50 y. Decemb. 20. h. 1. 15. p m. swelled in his belly especially after meate, hath ben ill 6 weekes

GJ Ellen Weed of Brafield on the greene 40 y. maried Sept. 2j ☿ ho. 1. 45 p m Hath bene ill these ij yeers sicke in her stomacke and paynfull in her body her body heaves sometyms as if she were w^th Child and falles agayne

GJ Dorothy Piggott of Lenborough 22 y. almost a yeere maried Faynt and weake a payne in her backe and rising in her stomack

quærit vtꝝ sit gravida

RW Tho: Lauton of Moulsoe y. 23 d. ♄ h: 11. 50. ant: m: Sept: 3. 1625. head breast & heart ill since Last Sunday: dry & thirstie