skip to primary navigationskip to content

Casebooks

Casebooks

Search results

Display  

Showing 1-2 of 2 records with:

  • Question asked in person in how-did-it-take-place 
  • 1620-1629::1623 in date 
  • Goody Martha Swelpson (PERSON59842) in querent 
 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
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

Top ten

Patients
Querents
  • Goody Martha Swelpson (PERSON59842)
manuscript page thumbnail

CASE55589: Horary consultation concerning Goody Martha Swelpson (PERSON59842)

Question asked by the patient on 13 February 1623 no earlier than 12:01

RN Goody Swelpson felt a blystering in her cheeke & came to me feb. 13 ♃ h. p m 1623

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 168v (bottom left part of page)

Goody Martha Swelpson (PERSON59842)

Medical>Symptoms (specified)>Lesions and abscesses (Blisters)

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

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE57347: Horary consultation concerning Goody Martha Swelpson (PERSON59842)

Question asked by the patient on 7 November 1623 at 15:00

RN Goody Swapson of this towne the mydwife 45 \50/ y novēb 7. ♀ h. 3. p m. 1623. /was prsent\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 16v (upper left part of page)

Goody Martha Swelpson (PERSON59842)

Medical (Not specified in question)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment 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-how-did-it-take-place=Question%20asked%20in%20person;f3-date=1620-1629%3A%3A1623;f4-querent=Goody%20Martha%20Swelpson%20%28PERSON59842%29, accessed 9 March 2025.

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