Casebooks

RN S^r Will: Andrews may 14 ♀. h. 4 p m. 1624 /quærit causā\

RN An Windgrave serv to y^e Lady Tyrell at Thornton 26 y octob. 17. ☿ h. 1. 30 p m 1632.

RN On of Hitchin \Thomas Gadstone./ an Attorney of 64 y Iune 21. ☿ h. 7. 2|3|0 p m 1620

RN S^r Will: Chancie of Edgcot 50 borne novēb. 10 ♂. h. 3. 30 ant m 50 novēb. last but sent his water May 12. ☿ h. 6 p m 1624

TG The Ladie Arshfield {sic} \RN Earsfild/ TG sent her letter jun. 8 ♄ h. 8. 15 p M

Quærit causam primordialem suæ ægritudinis utrum ab utero vl cerebro /RN splene v^l {stomacho}\TG

RN Mary Davyes nata Ian 23 ♀ \1509. 1595/ h. 6. 30 ant m sent to me octob 6 ☿ h. 3. 15 p m. 1624 to know wheather her of what her grate be \is/ caused her belly belly exceeding great yet as she thinketh not w^th child

RN My Cosen Marsh Iune 2 h {sic}. hor. 7. p m 16i0  causā frigid stomachi inquirit et quo modo medebit^r.

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.

RN Hardwike the lady Dickbyes serv. 34 y decēb 7 11 ☿ h. 2. 15. ant m. 1622

would know the cause of the cake of blood y^t conth {sic} w^th corrupt blood frō his right syde |spitteth corrupt blood.|

M^r. Rous Clopton of Corp. Chri Coll. Oxon 35. y. Mart. 17. ☿. h. 9. p. m. 1630

A greiuous Headache takes him at Midnight sometimes in one te of y^e head & sometimes in y^e other te, but especially in y^e left side of his heade, w^ch makes y^e places outwardly sore where y^e paine hath beene.¹

A continually Noyse in his head w^th a tearinge paine as yf it would pull one skyn from another, w^ch comes sometimes suddenly like a strech, & then is gone in an instant

A dizines in y^e heade & a leapinge, as it were of blacke mothes before his Eyes

This paine hath continued these 6 weekes,

Desires to knowe whether it ceeds from y^e stomack or spleene, from a cold or{illeg} hote cause

Hath beene let Bloud in y^e right arme, & vnder the tongue, & in y^e forehead, beeinge tolde by the Physitian y^this greife was caused by fullnes of Bloud

Hath taken Pills & Electuaryes sundry times, but his paine noethinge deminished

Hath for many years beene troubled w^th a soundinge & noyse in his head, but neuer w^th paine till nowe Feareth a Disposition to the Palsye or Apoplexye Desires Receits & Directions to preuent these two capitall Dangers.

M^r. Edmund Vaughan of Corp. Chri Col. Oxon. Febr. 23. ♃ h. 2. p m. 1632

vrina valde bona

Desires to know whether his infirmity come from his Liuer or Brest or otherwise

pained in his Brest; rayseth euery morneing a litle Bloud w^th his flegme, desires to know from whence it proceedes.