skip to primary navigationskip to content

Casebooks

Casebooks

Search results

Display  

Showing 1-2 of 2 records with:

  • Medical::Symptoms (specified)::Bloating and swelling in question-asked 
  • 030-039::35 in patient-age-band 
  • Medical::Illnesses (named) in question-asked 
 Sorted by:  

Refine your results

Document type

Practitioner details

Practice
Practitioner
Number of practitioners
Practitioner is querent
Practitioner is patient

Astrologer details

Astrologer
Practitioner is astrologer
Number of astrologers

Patient details

Patient is
Patient’s age
Number of patients

How & where did it take place

Querent is asking about
Consultation took place with patient's knowledge
Patient's consent to the consultation is
How did it take place

When did it take place

Date
Time of day

Consultation details

Question asked
Case contains judgment
Case includes treatment information
Case contains recipe

Person asking the question

Querent is
Querent’s age
Querent is identified
Number of querents

Editorial information

Shelfmark
Volume name
Case deleted
Case text damaged
Hands
Language
Extent of transcription
manuscript page thumbnail

CASE22185: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Mason (PERSON54458)

Question asked by the patient on 17 June 1630 at 17:25

RN Elis Mason mayed {sic} Iue {sic} 17 ♃ h. 5. 25 p m 1603 {sic} her legs & hands doe swell therfore feareth a Dropsy a fat womā of a sanguine cōplex 3 children

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 238, f. 25r (upper left part of page)

Mrs Elizabeth Mason (PERSON54458)

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

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Bloating and swelling  (Swelling)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Dropsy)

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

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE57061: Horary consultation concerning Goody Smith (PERSON59087)

Question asked by the patient on 10 September 1623 at 15:40

RN Goody Smyth of Sutton for an ague & a swelling & red spots a long tyme 35 y sept 10 ☿ h. 3. 40 p m 1623.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 218, f. 215r (bottom right part of page)

Goody Smith (PERSON59087)

Medical >Illnesses (named)  (Ague)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Bloating and swelling  (Swelling)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Lesions and abscesses (Spots)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment

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?f23-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ABloating%20and%20swelling;f24-patient-age-band=030-039%3A%3A35;f25-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllnesses%20%28named%29, accessed 23 January 2025.

Browse casebooks

Search

Forman’s Judgmentes and Napier’s Defence

Reading the casebooks

Who were the practitioners?

Who were the patients?

Using the casebooks

The manuscripts

Casebooks sites

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge