Casebooks

RW Clement Rulie d. ♀. h: 9. 25. p: mer: Feb: 1. 1622. taken suddenly w^th a riseing in \her/ stomacke w^ch is readie to stop her winde: her hands cold; highe coloured in her face & swetteth: hath a heate in her bodie

Anne Knott of Holcott a widowe 46. y. Feb. 11. ♃. h. 4. p. m. 1630

Is light headed & talketh very idley sometimes rageth & raueth, hath beene soe eu^r since Saturday, since yesterday hath beene very ill. cannot sleepe¹

SRN M^rs Cotta of Coventry 40. y. August 22. ♄. h. 10. a. m. 1635.

Subject to bleeding, hath a burneinge in the insides of her hands & the Soles of her feete. desires my aduise whether it be good for to bleed either by Leeches or in her feete.

GJ Elsabeth Morgan of Lawndon 40 y. Septemb. j. ♃ ho 10 36 a m. 1603

RW Beniamin Hubbins of Astwood y. 26. d. ☾ h: 1: p: m: Novemb. 20 1620. swelled in his left leg: yesterday his right leg was swelled but now it is come into his left leg: payned in his left eare, & so downewards. had a purge 10 dayes since w^ch wrought well & he was much the better for it: now worse then he was. complayneth more of heate then of colde then of heate. did complayne at the first more of heate then of colde. cannot sleepe.

RW Martha {Binion} of wooulson. y. 22. d. ☾ h. 9. 40 ant: m: Ian: 15. 1621. shortwinded: legs swelled yet not broken. payned sometimes in her backe & belly. hath them not sinc harvest.

Anne Bignell of Eaton 19. y. mart. 19. ♀. h. 11. ant m. 1630

A riseinge vp vnto her throate, is in Labour, her rekoninge out a monthe Since, is strangly handled in her heade, vomiteth Bloude, swoundeth

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.\

SRN Marian Phelp of Blechly 40. y Septemƀ. 11. ♀ h. 10. a. m. 1635

Much payned in her chest & at her heart very shortwynded swelld & howen in her face hands & Body

\vomitts what she taketh/ hath not bin well since it thunderd & lightend when she came from Stoke goldinge on th{e} Sunday y^t it lightend & thunde{red} so much.

it first tooke her w^th sorenes in her throate

body Costiue. Vryne very thin & frothy, & cleere. hath bin married these 9. y. no child.

TG Ellen greene of Fen traiton in Cambridge sh. 34. y. Ap. 8 ♂ h. 9 am. 1634. troubled in minde haunted by an ill spirit, whom se {sic} saith he speaketh to her.

GJ Alice Lord of Kempson 25 y. May 5 ♃ ho. 10 30 a m. 1603

Keepeth her bed, trembles very much, A great payne in her backe her right hand and right arme swelled. Cryes of her bones and every where about in great payne./

RW Henry Sheepheard. of Sympson. y. 60. d. ☾ h. 11. 30 ant: m: Feb. 28. 1620. hath beene sicke ever since Christmas. is swelled in his body: & his belly hard: legs swelled & hath a little issue in each of them: hath kept his bed these two dayes. Eateth his meate prettily well: is rather loose then costive

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.

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 Tho: Warde of Turringhā y. 24. d. ♄ ho. 0. 10. Feb: 26 1620. A stick in his right side & a drie huskeish cough: \p {sic}/ pitteth blood when hee cougheth.

RW Iohn Peckauer of Brackley. y. 38. d. ♄ h: 10. {illeg}|4|0. ant: m: Feb: 26. 1620.

swelleth in her face chest & legs for a moneth. sicke euer since Christmasse

RW Mary Allen of Hardmead. y. 25. d. ♄ h: 11. ant: m: Feb: 26. 1620. griped & pulled about her stomacke: hath not had them neuer since before Christmasse. ill aboue a weeke. full in her stomacke & hath no appetite

RW M^ris Margaret Sandford of the forrest y. 6 75. ant: m: Feb. 28. 1620. stomacke swelleth: voydeth water & flegme manie times out of her mouth: payned in her righte arme

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 Lydda Carter of Cheshā y. 19. d. ♄ h. 9. 45. ant: m: Martij. 18. 1620. a great swellinge in her breast & in her throate. very extreame ill & keepeth her bed & hath done so a weeke.