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CASE64626: Decumbiture for Mrs Mary Mariot (PERSON54259)

Question asked by the patient on 21 September 1627 at 12:30

RN mres may {sic} had her first fits Se{p}t {sic} \Sept/ 11. ♂ h. 8. 20 p m 1627 /will laugh in her fits\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘had 30 fits of the mother’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 220r (bottom right part of page)

Mrs Mary Mariot (PERSON54259)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Womb, matrix, mother )

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Laughing )

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment Astrological Chart

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CASE73937: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Jane Cresset (PERSON47278)

Question asked by the patient on 5 March 1632 at 17:00

RN Mres Crescet of Edmunton 24 21. ☾ h. 5: p m. 1632 /doth laught in her feetes\ /epileps. matricis\ /sencles\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 483 (upper left part of page)

Mrs Jane Cresset (PERSON47278)

Medical >Illnesses (named) (Falling sickness)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso  (Womb, matrix, mother )

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Lost sensesLaughing )

Medical >Parts of the body >Limbs and joints (Feet)

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-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso%3A%3AWomb%2C%20matrix%2C%20mother;f3-number-of-practitioners=Single%20practitioner;f4-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind%3A%3ALaughing, accessed 15 March 2025.

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