Casebooks

RN Mres Margaret Franklin of Bonehurst 24 y march 29. ☿ h. 10. 40 ant m 1620 \worst fasting/ hed full & dissye wyndy a cold stomacke hot liver full of melancholy greefe sinc her fathers death. face flushing hot & breaking out /vnmayed {sic}.\ /cold feete hot head\

RN {Ia}ne Browne of Adington {2}9. y christ Iuly \Iune Iuly/ 20. 1595. sent to me Iuly Iune 30 ☿ h. 9. 20 ant m 1624 /neaver had child.\¹

Iane Browne of Adin{gton} 29. y. Iune 30 ☿ h 19. 20 a{nt} m. 1624. paraliticall tormented w^th heate & a burning payne in her belly & shooting into her legs & belly hath no vse of her lims cā not stand nor goe /sweateth mutch.\

RN Edward Brandon of Droughton 22 y a batch novēb 27. ☾ h. 2. 30 p m 1620 melancholy mightely troubled in mynd & cānot sleepe & costive head paynd & greatly payned in his stomack.

RW M^r Edward Birckberd of Astwell \y. 50./ d. ☉. h 10. Feb: 3. 1622. had of late a swellinge in his thighes & leggs, w^ch was taken away by physicke purginge: since that his stomacke is gone: is verie weake: troubled w^th a cough & drouth: cannot sleepe. RN a great difficulty of breath./ cānot rise out of his bed nor stand v nor restRW

RN Edw. Birckberd a spec serv vnto S^r George Sherly M^r Colins houshold physition.

RN Mres Elisabeth. Banyster the daughter of S^r Rob. Banyster 2|3|0\1./ y march. 20 ☿ h. 12. 39. p m 1622 |a very leane melanch. gentlewomā| |costive cōmonly. head ach.| |head weake spl: ready to vnclose & cānot sleepe worst at night w^th raging payne w^th a shooting & dra{w} in her eyes/|

RN Georg Impye of London Apprentice 21 y march. 28 ♃. h. 2. 30 p m. 1622 /8 weekes ill a cough reareth flegme back sydes & hart & head by fits very\ /a cōsumption feared./\

RN M^r Henry Ventres 21 y Octob 2. ☿ h. 2. 30 p m 1622. hed & face & body breake out in pinples {sic} & dye sodenly had a sore throat & mouth. vseth to bleed mutch at nose.

RN About 3 M^r Caroll came to me vttering his secreatꝭ

ever sinc mikle alhalloutyde y^t he bought a purchas neaver well but feeleth him selfe very faynt & drye & exceeding thirsty in his stomacke & mouth & on the end of his tongue./ & as he Drinketh maketh water continually after drinking |cānot follow any busynes./|

Costive onc in 2 or 3 days./

RN Ioane Davis of Olny 43|7| 47 y may 5 ♂ h. 3. 30 p m. 1629 /nose blystering & sore\ /head ill legs broken out & Issuing\¹

RN my deere Cosen she Marsh sent vnto me Iuly 17. ♂ h. 5. p m. 1627. /deus benedicat Cognatæ meæ\

\no good of y^e oyntnent {sic}/ her head ill & mutch payned, the vayns in her tēples swelled & arme so weake y^t she cānot vse it & the vaynes be sore to her foote

extremely payned

desyrous to have williā Rufhead to let her blood

would have something to incease {sic} good blood

desyrous to know when to send her coach.

RN Mary Bruer of this towne 36 y feb. 4. ☾ h. 9 ant m 1628

Is lame in all her body & her |left| kne swelled & foot & is lame in it cōplayneth of her backe & syde & is desyrous to be let blood great w^th child quickened at S^t Thomas

RN Mres Brograve of Braffyn in Hartfordsheere hard by Putchkinge 40|5| y feb. 22 ♃ h. 2. p m 162i

hed gydie full of melancholy would know what tyme best for physick & wheath^r she should come over. & craveth my prayers

would have to be cast & made the 24 of feb some S of ♄. a f{ur} & more here after

w^th a note of there vertues & what certenty of there effects & ve oatus would know the best tyes {sic} for S of ♃ & & the worst tyes {sic} a fit tyme to come vnto me

RN Alexander Lovell of Hazlebeech a husb: in Northāpton sheere 50. y. mac|rc|h. 19 h {sic} hor: 9. 15 ant m 1625.

mynd troubled & will speak idlely & had physick & a S & mended {&} 2. y. sinc & now & is sore visited w^th sickns {sic} anys {sic} this fortnight.

march 15 extree {sic} ill about 12. 30 p m 1625

RN Mres foster {illeg}|o|f newp 23 y march. 18 ☾ h. 4 p m. 1622 /a huzzing in head like rayne w^th a gydynes a bad back flushing heat on the left syde of her head\

RN my Cosen Warren \Reeve/ sent me a letter Ian 25 h {sic} hor 3 \25/ p m 1623 last weeke voyded vp blood 3 tymes. to the quantity of halfe a pynt is very ill feaversh {sic} weake & feeble & cānot slepe

desyrous of some cordiall & of my advice

RN Mary Brendlye of Olnye 27 y octob. 23 ♃ h. 2. 20|45| {sic} \45./ p {m} 1623. |a great trembling at her hart & shortwyded apt to swound A great heavyness of heart| /extreme desp sick when she styrreth but not resting\

RN An Clarke of Adstock 67 y decēb. 5 ☉ h. 3 p m. 1624 a wedd next at night 5 weekes Dreamed in the night & was at her waking in a trance her {illeg}|s|ight & sences fayling her & is redy to sink away sodenly by fits in her sight & sences & swȳing of her brayne offreth to cast & to goe to stoole but cānot

RN Th Ellys of Raunson 50 y Iune 14. ♂ h 4 p m. 1625 /head ill a great cough & cold cānot sleepe ach in his bones\

RN The lady Twisden of London 51. y. may 27 h {sic} hor. 1 p. m 1626

by her sleeping & scouring she hath nutch {sic} mended sinc S^r will wrote Last y^t is thursday last.

yet the last night was more troublesome then before

this Day cōplayneth of a sournes rising out of her stomake supposeth y^t a vomyt would doe her good yet dare not to adventur it by reason of her weaknes & scowring. w^ch we dare not to stay seing the goodnes of it yet fyndeth no aptnes to cast but a soure belching

desyreth a nother box of the pils 10 and an answ to his lett & to this.

The lady Twisden of London may 27 h 1. p m 1626

very weake & feeble yet sitteth vp & eateth p^rty well. scoureth mtch {sic} hath a soure belching yet no aptnes to cast.

would know wheath^r fit to give her a vomyt considering her \great/ weaknes & sither her scouring Doth her so mutch good craveth an answere to his forme & to this Letter also.

wheath^r any other course for mending of the sourenes will not helpe w^th out a vomyt.

RN Margaret Smyth. of Broughton 43 y Aug. 10. ♀. h. 9 ant m. 1627 |hath an ague every day sinc christmas|

strangly taken w^th a rising at her hart likely to swound sa a knife & feareth to see a knife & trēbleth at it.