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CASE78751: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON42057)

Question asked by the patient on 21 January 1634 at 12:30 or at 13:30 or at 14:30 or at 15:30 or at 16:30 or at 17:30 or at 18:30 or at 19:30 or at 20:30

TG {illeg} of Hanslop {illeg} 30′ p M. {1634.}

{illeg} {V}inum. {illeg}

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 412, f. 73v (upper right part of page)

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CASE11932: Horary consultation concerning Toucher (PERSON16500)

Question asked by the patient on 3 January 1599 at 12:09

RN Mr {sic} Charels Tutcher Charles at Stonystratford at the swan of 2 neckes. 45. sick this fortnight. sonewhat {sic} Costive shee doth bleede & is very mutch stuffed in her chest can scarce tak her winde. ready to sound a grosse & fat woman. sent a poer woman. Ian. 3. die . h. 12. 9. mi. 1599. \at 1. p m /|twice & thrice a day bleedeth at ye nose. half a pint at a time \every othr daye/|

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Charels Touchers wife hath not had her termes this 6 yeres her stomack hoven & her hed ill & backe her wombe & chest stuffed short winded. hart ill water good. yellowe but thin. taken a greefe for payment of monyes for her husb. brother for s{ur}tiship. 200li

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 77r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE37805: Horary consultation concerning Mr Adrian Fortescue (PERSON19645) and Mrs Mary Fortescue (PERSON30516) and Mr William Fortescue (PERSON30513)

Question asked by Lady Grace Fortescue [Grace Manners] (PERSON19647) on 3 April 1611 between 15:00 and 16:00

GJ Mr Adrian Fortescue and mrs Mary Fortescue have taken thrice of their physicke and wrought well wth them, the gentlewoman sicke the first taking, and well since, her stomack better, but her head as it was

Mr Adrian sicke wth his physicke on monday last and tooke none since he sleepes not well, is growen weake and his waxen kernells remayne. / my Lady think that if he continue so it will bring him to a consumption She desyres to have some course for mr willm Fortescue 10 y. wch hath also an Itche. Desyres to be satisfyed how this Itche comes whether by overheating the bloud wth violent exercise. & whether they shall continue the rest of the physike.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 200, f. 52v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE41346: Horary consultation concerning Mr Allen (PERSON27324)

Question asked by the patient between 10 May 1613 at 14:00 and 11 May 1613 at 18:00

RN Mr Allen 6|7|0 y pils neck shoulders back syde of his head. swelling in his bones costivenes

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 199, f. 119r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE12134: Horary consultation concerning John Burton (PERSON10224)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON17668) on 25 March 1599 at 18:08

RN Iohn Burton of Cosgrave for his disease a boy of 9 yeres old kept his bed ever sinc tuesday. voyded wormes payned in chest belly & hart a stitch vndr his right \side/ a very hie coloured youth wth the vexation yt was pale before. all swollen frō the face to the granes. made no water sinc thursday. at 25 of March. die h. 6: 8. p. m 1599

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 111r (upper left part of page)

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CASE11786: Horary consultation concerning Mr Andrew Knight (PERSON13447)

Question asked by the patient on 8 November 1598 at 14:52

RN Andrew Knighte of Newport 36. for the winde cholicke this moneth. & stone red sand & changeth it into blood as big as a {fe}tch somewhat yellowe. forced to \purge/ fleme yellowe Chollour in great abundanc right syde of the reanes of his back & so rūneth to the bottome of his belly. vrine hot & cōplexion wthout the fit. Novemb. 8. die h. 3. 2. 52. m. p m. 1598. extreeme payne in side & backe.

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 49v (upper left part of page)

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CASE49923: Horary consultation concerning Goodman William Young (PERSON37175)

Question asked by the patient on 9 November 1619 at 15:00

RN Will Young of Illing beyond St yeedes 58 y novēb. 9 h. 3. p m 1619.

an aguish thick red water. / sick the thursd before St Nich his day. a twelfemonth something smyt him on the chest le{illeg}|n|ing {sic} \leaning/ agaynst a tree by wth mutch gryping in his belly a swelling in his body sometymes hot & sometymes cold wth a nūmnes in his legs yt he cānot goe for it. loose body. cānot eate nor drinke by fits.

is vp every day more or les.

Is so swelled in his body yt he cā scarce get his cleathes togeathr by fits his legs

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 51v (upper left part of page)

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CASE66092: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Kent (PERSON52814)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40662) on 14 May 1628 at 17:00

RN Agnys Kent of Moulsoe almost 5 quarters borne on Palme sonday last was twelfmonth about some {sic} rising sent to me May 14. . h. 5. p m. 1628.

It is pyned & cōsumed belly hard & voydeth wormes living 6. wasteth in the body. was nurced by goody Keburne. goody Keburne came into another nurces house & would needes suckle it, wheathr the nurce would or no & sinc mutch amys & it swounded twice to day belly very hard flesh quite wasted was not well tended by goody Keburne face swelled buttocke black & blewe. cānot stand vppon the lyms the child prsent wth goody Alton of Moulsoe it did batle well vnder this nurce vntill goody Keburne her former nurce would suckle it force tooke some surfet.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 32r (upper left part of page)

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CASE66410: Horary consultation concerning Mr John Evans (PERSON48613) and Anonymous (PERSON40698)

Question asked by Mr John Evans (PERSON48613) on 19 June 1628 at 18:00

RN {I}ohn Evans of the Mynrys in London Iue {sic} 19 h. 6 p m. 1628

writeth for a gent mā

first vnfoldeth his owne greefe how he is wrōged & cosened of all yt he hath & therby he his wife & childrē broght to great want & misery craveth my Counsell & instruction

Also writeth in the behalfe of a gentlemā yt having taken an extreme cold & prsently an exceeding greefe for the Death of his wife & {th}erby cast Downe into sicknes & mutch melancholy of a sanguyne cōplexion his sicknes & melancholy is mutch abated & now his voice is almost Lost yt he s cānot {sic} \on cānot/ spea heare on \him/ that speaketh {sic} \to speake/ a yard of

cōplayneth of something about the pit of his throate his voice is only low & weake but not troubled wth any fault in noncing but cleere inough every where no physick but cōplayneth of the coldnes of his stomack & head & sone {sic} stoppage about the begying of his nose cold flegme & cold head & defect in hearing hath 2 great manyscripts of physick yt he is Desyrous I should vse craveth vnder god my consayle for the frind his gentleman

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 80r (upper left part of page)

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CASE50292: Horary consultation concerning Mr Edward Plummer (PERSON14975)

Question asked by the patient on 12 February 1620 at 15:20

RN Mr \Edward/ Plūmer of Holcot 50 y. 40 y feb 12 h {sic} hor 3. \20/ p m 1620

about cristmas face & hands mutch swelled as big as two stomack weake cā scarc keepe any thing. I {se}aled blood onc sinc yt mutch payned in his head & mēbers at the end of making water it prickes & throbs wth extreme payne

feareth an vlcer for it is as matter yt cōmeth frō him & maketh it often. 4 tymes in an houre it hindereth slepe.

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 134r (upper left part of page)

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CASE63782: Horary consultation concerning Joan Parkinson (PERSON56153)

Question asked by Mr Hammond (PERSON50735) on 1 May 1627 at 15:30

RW Ioane Parkinson of Pirton in Hartfordsheire. y. 20. d. . h: 3. 30. p: m: Maij. 1o. 1627. moopish this tweluemoneth, distracted of her witts: fell ill first vpon a beatinge by her dame: no sence or vnderstandinge at all, nor a word frō her can be gotten vnlesse they anger her, & then she bids a rat on them they trouble her. hath them well. eateth vnreasonably mr Hamond wrote for her in her behalfe a lustie wench

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 82v (upper left part of page)

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CASE66437: Horary consultation concerning Mary Clark (PERSON46290)

Question asked by the patient on 24 June 1628 at 18:00

RN Mary Clarke of newp vtū {sic} the kings evill hath litle kernels vnder her chin & hath a reddish rūing issue vnder the chin 2 months felt payne in her hed eyes & every where |a yere| about & feble in her legs yet hath thē well Iune 24 h 6 p m 1628.

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 83v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE74565: Horary consultation concerning Mr William Crowly [Master of Arts] (PERSON47397)

Question asked by the patient on 9 May 1632 at 13:00

RN Mres {sic} Crawlys physick wrought well vomyts & pils yet troubled wth a hot rheme in her|is| left ey & a heavynes hinder t of his head in his ioynts & ankles & kne & right leg may 9 h. 1. p m 1632

desyrous of a purging dyet Drink.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 147 (bottom left part of page)

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CASE36471: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Mary Barnsly (PERSON21989)

Question asked by Mr Nicholas Barnsly (PERSON21988) on 3 September 1609 between 13:20 and 15:00

RN Mr Barneslay mr Stones brother in law for his wife troubled wth arising vp to her throate like the mother. & wth flushshing heate & pushes & pimples in her face.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 203, f. 148r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE75627: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Anne Rumbole (PERSON58024)

Question asked by the patient on 5 October 1632 at 17:00 or at 17:25

RN An Rūbell of Bullingf

An Rūble of Buntingford 25 y y {sic} newly brought a bed a fortnight sinc octob 5. h. 5. p m 1632.

a great trēbling & panting at her hart mynd troubled wth fantas. for want of sleepe delivered of a boy on weddensday was fortnight h. 1 at night cā take no rest melancholick

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An Rūble of Buntinford 25 y octob. 5 h. 5. 25 p m 1632

lately brought a bed a trēbling & a panting at the harte cānot sleepe melancholick

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 214, pp. 54–55 (p. 54 bottom right, and p. 55 bottom centre)

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CASE69872: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Joan Leavens (PERSON53578)

Question asked by the patient on 23 December 1629 at 16:40

RN Ioane Leavins of Imly 22 y a wench Decēb 23. h. 5 \4. 40/. p. m 16291

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her secreat places burne exceedingly & swell wth sutch payne yt she cā hardly make water & yet maketh very litle

hath a Droutch yt nothing well quench her thirst

hath a hot & a dry liver & a cold stomack

craveth a cooling playster for her liver hath 2 dig

wheathr she shall vse her cels of pouder every day or othr day cānot make water/

Notes:

1 ‘2 fig’ in the left margin

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 24 (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE10681: Horary consultation concerning Matthew Walsore [Walgere] (PERSON16790) and Frances Walgere (PERSON16746)

Question asked by Matthew Walsore [Walgere] (PERSON16790) and Frances Walgere (PERSON16746) on 26 May 1600 at 13:26

RN Mathewe Walsore of Buckginham {sic} 30. music. may 26 die h. 1. 3 26. p m. 1600

paynd in his \head &/ chest by reason of a wound receaved but healed wch maketh him cast. alwyys {sic} leane somtimes voydeth leeke matter & choler. spade bone of his shoulder perisheth his lungs. & francis Walso|ge|re 28. his wif paynd wth a windines in her stomacke.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 84r, f. 85r (f. 84r bottom left, and f. 85r upper right)

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CASE12191: Horary consultation concerning Anne Winkles (PERSON17270)

Question asked by the patient on 2 April 1599 at 13:00

RN An Winkles of Hanslop. 60. amisse this 20 yeres: vndr her left side pricketh leeke a dagger. cōbred wth colour. wth slymy black reping geere. goeth vp to her belly & backe. Apr. 2. die . h. 1. 1599. sad & hevye.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 119v (upper left part of page)

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CASE12477: Horary consultation concerning Roger Riecross (PERSON15330) and Mary Riecross (PERSON15332)

Question asked by Roger Riecross (PERSON15330) on 17 May 1599 at 12:30

RN Rogar Riecrose of Stonystratford. 30. y. fore a sore eye {illeg} {sic} bloodshoten. & hed payned & troubled wth the winde. may the 17. die . h. 12. 30 1599. hot & scaldeth in his hed. & eye./

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Mary Riecross of Stonystratford 6 yeres cōplayneth of her belly sick this 12 moneth.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 166r (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE13630: Horary consultation concerning Goodman Christopher Woodfield (PERSON17334)

Question asked by the patient on 31 March 1603 at 13:15

RN Chrystopher Woodfild lying long sicke wrote \sente/ vnto me to come to him martij 31. hor. 1. {p}|15| p m 1603. troubled wth a shortnes of wynd ready to stop his wynd an aso{illeg}|m|a. hed gydye a burning in his body desyrous to have his neighbours forgive him as making no othr reckning then of death.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 197, f. 16r (bottom part of page)

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-judgment=No;f3-time-of-day=PM;f4-question-asked=Medical, accessed 29 March 2024.