skip to primary navigationskip to content

Casebooks

Casebooks

Search results

Display  

Showing 1-5 of 5 records with:

  • Excerpt in extent-of-transcription 
  • 1610-1619 in date 
  • No in judgment 
  • Medical::Symptoms (specified)::Lame, numb or paralysed::Trembling in question-asked 
  • Case::Entry in document-type 
 Sorted by:  

Refine your results

Document type

Practitioner details

Practice
Practitioner
Number of practitioners
Practitioner is querent
Practitioner is patient

Astrologer details

Astrologer
Practitioner is astrologer
Number of astrologers

Patient details

Patient is
Patient’s age
Number of patients

How & where did it take place

Querent is asking about
Consultation took place with patient's knowledge
Patient's consent to the consultation is
How did it take place

When did it take place

Date
Time of day

Consultation details

Question asked
Case contains information about
Case contains judgment
  • No
Case includes treatment information
Case contains recipe

Person asking the question

Querent is
Querent’s age
Querent is identified
Number of querents

Editorial information

Shelfmark
Volume name
Case deleted
Case text damaged
Hands
Language
Extent of transcription
  • Excerpt
manuscript page thumbnail

CASE23483: Horary consultation concerning Old Goodman Green (PERSON12335)

Question asked by the patient on 30 May 1614 at 06:00

RN Goodmā Greene of this towne 70 y may 30 ☾ h. 6 ant m 1614. came & brought his water |he shaked when he brought his water.|1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘a shaking ague’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 237, f. 15r (upper right part of page)

Old Goodman Green (PERSON12335)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed  (Trembling )

Medical >Illnesses (named) (Ague)

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE41075: Decumbiture for Alice Marsh (PERSON33021)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON37856) on 27 March 1613 at 08:20

RN {c}orrepta tremore et fere stupore. march. 26: ♀. h. 1. p m 1613.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 199, f. 74r (bottom left part of page)

Anonymous (PERSON37856)Alice Marsh (PERSON33021)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed  (Trembling Numbness)

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE26402: Horary consultation concerning Ursula V. (PERSON62806)

Question asked by the patient on 21 February 1615 at 07:45

RW Vrsula V: of monkscrisborrow y: 13. d: ♂ . hor: 7. 45. ant: m: Feb: 21. 1615. troubled wth strang sights when shee goeth to bed. Taken wth a shakinge & a prickinge att her hearte.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 204, f. 41r (upper left part of page)

Ursula V. (PERSON62806)

Medical >Diseases of the mind (Seeing things)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed  (Trembling )

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Pain and pricking (Pricking)

Medical >Parts of the body>Torso (Heart)

Practitioner: Mr Robert Wallis (PERSON36434) Treatment Astrological Chart

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE44290: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Spark (PERSON35601)

Question asked by the patient on 10 February 1617 at 11:00

RN Elis Sparkes of Blinā 17 y feb. 10 ☾ h. 11. ant m. 1617. |greene sicknes. a yere.| /never had her temes {sic}\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘a great pricking & shaking in hed. by fits’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 198, f. 63r (upper left part of page)

Elizabeth Spark (PERSON35601)

Medical >Illnesses (named) (Green sickness)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Pain and pricking (Pricking)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed  (Trembling )

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

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE48601: Nativity for Mrs Frances Digby (PERSON29826)

Question asked by the patient on 1 May 1619 no earlier than 16:40

RN Mres francis Digbye Sr Evarets sister nata the tuesday before the 30 of novēbr. before 7 in ye morning /1588.\ send for my Directions may 1. hhor {sic} 4. 40 p m 1619. /vnmayed {sic}\ |30 y|

mutch troubled wth melanch pass apt to weep wthout any iust case.

nata Octob 29 ♂ h. 7. ant m 1588. a great heavynes in ye stomacke & a beating & trembling at the hart. wth a |continuall| payne at her hart at yt tyme of all on her left syde

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 230, f. 347v (upper left part of page)

Mrs Frances Digby (PERSON29826)

Medical >Treatment (Requesting treatment)

Medical >Diseases of the mind (MelancholyHeaviness)

Medical >Parts of the body>Torso (StomachHeartSide(s))

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lame, numb or paralysed  (Trembling )

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Pain and pricking (Pain)

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

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-extent-of-transcription=Excerpt;f3-date=1610-1619;f4-judgment=No;f5-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ALame%2C%20numb%20or%20paralysed%3A%3ATrembling;f6-document-type=Case%3A%3AEntry, accessed 6 June 2024.

Browse casebooks

Search

Forman’s Judgmentes and Napier’s Defence

Reading the casebooks

Who were the practitioners?

Who were the patients?

Using the casebooks

The manuscripts

Casebooks sites

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge