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 M^r \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 y^t mutch payned in his head & mēbers at the end of making water it prickes & throbs w^th extreme payne

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

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

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^ris Godwine of Cardington. y. 39. d. ♂ h: 9. 40 ant: m: Feb: 29. 1620. hath had a cold 3 weekꝭ: & a great cough: w^ch settled to her right |left| side: but is removed frō thence: Cryeth out of her heart: & sayth it swimmeth in water: is much plexed & troubled. cannot sleepe nor take rest for 4 nights now togither. her stomacke is so ill that she can not take anie thinge but posset ale & broths.

RN Iohn Field his sonne of Luton 14. y payned frō the head to the sole of the feete 2 days before newyers day. taken in a cold morning full of great wheales all over. his body as big as great beanes exceding poer & weake knoweth no body, nor can styr any te of his body very thirsty goeth to stoole well Ian 27 ♃ h. 3 p m 1620

RN on fryday night about 12 of the clock was taken very strangly backe belly & every where as it were w^th huc\coc/kes fryday & satterday night lay as on y^t should dete

feb. 4. ♀ h. 12. at night

RN Elis. Guddridg of Northāpton 50 y Ap. 21. ♀ h. 11 20 ant m 1620.

Elis Guddridg of Northāpton 50 y Ap 21. ♀ h. 11. 38 ant m 1620. sciatica a yere shooting downe into the bottome of her belly & towards the mydle of her backe this halfe yere payneth her most grevously twice a day at each tyme 2 houes {sic}.

RN old \yonge/ Mres \Iane/ B{illeg}|er|ry {sic} \Berry/ of of Cranfild {sic} \of Raunson/ m 22 y vnmayed {sic}. May 30 ♂ h. 9 ant m 1620 had a fall a yere sinc frō a horse ill by fits. head & lims & somewhat lame.

RN Iohn Allen of lowton. 27 y mayed {sic} Iune 9 ♀ h. 8|9| ant m 1620 hands swelled arnes {sic} & should payed {sic}

RN Goody Harryson octob 21. h {sic} hor. 10. 30 |25| ant m 1620. desp sick impost in her eares a rising in her stomacke vryne good of Astwoode.

RN Mres Iemyson of Irchester. 56 y octob 26. ♃ h. 12. 30 p m 1620 /faynting outwardly cold inwardly hot swelled\

RN Iane White of Groundon 34. y Decēb. 21 ♃ h. 11. 40 ant m. 1620.

head back hart armes & all oth^r places

RN Mary Hooten of Lathburye 29 y Decēb 27. ☿ h. 12. \20/ p m 1620

stomack head & throate eyes drye & yet spitteth

RN M^r Stoake \of Wing/ very sick of melancholy head stōacke cānot sleepe. Ian 23 ☉ h. 2. 30 p m 1620 |is very weake|

RW M^ris Anne Cronwell of sympson. y. 5|4|4. d. ☾ h: 6. 30. ant: m: Feb: 28. 1620. vomiteth much: all things seeme bitter vnto her. hath beene {verie} soluble lately. sleepeth {verie} vnquietly. ill a fortnight. keepeth ¹

RW Laurence Iuckkerby of Layton. y. 38. d. ♂ h: 22. 55. ant. m. Martij 14 1620. put on a shirte not ayred on morninge, & was all that \day/ after it cold & aguish & at night had a great payne with an extreeme stick in his ryght side. can take nothing but liquid matter, & yet hee vomiteth vp that againe If hee doth but stirre his sticke taketh him extreamely. hee is very faynt.

RN Ione Mead of Stukely 52 y march 22 ☿ h. 11. 30 ant m 1620

swelled very big in her belly & very hard a whole yere. her legs begyn to swell is very weake & faynt

a Tympany

An aguish water

RW M^ris Clarke of Perry. y. 35. d. ♄ h: 10. 25. ant: m: Aprill 15. 1620. troubled with a wheesinge; feareth a Consumption: payned in her backe & legs: ill 4 yeeres.

RN Mres \Mary/ Tabout of Saldon 20. y. \last miklemas/ Iune 30 ♀ h. 4 4{5} p m. 1620

hath had 3 false cōcept. & this last on wedde{ns} mornīg w^th gre{at} payne & travel{l} & many throw{es} nothing but a bla{dder} & nothing in it¹ hath neav^r but {a} fewe vseth mutch fasting & also a sparing dyet.

enquireth the ca{use} & what remedy

wheath^r this defect ceed not as well frō the husb. as the wife. by reason there wanteth only the shape thought good to goe to the spawe for thē boath & what I think therof. what best for dyet. & hereafter what physick & for y^e p^rsent wheather cond elect or losenges.