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CASE54511: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON39479)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON39478) on 26 June 1622 at 08:25

RN A poor mā of London for his melanch wife who suadeth her self yt I cā helpe her. Iune 26 ☿ h. 8 {illeg}|2|5 ant m 1622

mutch melanch supposeth |yt| she is beworded & yt I can helpe her./

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 169v (bottom left part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON39478) Anonymous (PERSON39479)

Medical >Diseases of the mind (Melancholy)

Medical >Witchcraft and devil (Witchcraft suffered (medical))

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Outcome(s) 

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?f2-date=1620-1629;f3-practitioner-is-querent=No;f4-question-asked=Medical;f5-how-did-it-take-place=Unclear;f6-info=Outcome%28s%29;f7-patient-sex=Female;f8-volume-name=Napier%2C%20vol.%2035;f9-participant=Anonymous%20%28PERSON39478%29, accessed 24 June 2024.

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