Casebooks

RN Elisabeth Purden of puddington 36 y. sicke hath had her sicknes to mitch {sic}. faynt & feeble. y^t w^ch cōmeth frō her very blacke flowers wat^r to muth {sic} thin coloured. paynd head & sydes & hath menses immodices/

RN Robart Harvy of newp 26 y Sept 4. ☿ h. 4 p m. 1611. hed light & sore

RN my Cosen Burrington spake to me to help him for his gydynes & payne in his should & necke & ey may 17 ♂ h. 8. 15 ant m 163i /a very deboyst & deceitful mā\

RN Radolp: french. 46. s minister of Stock hamon. 9 of november. die ♃. h. 11. 45. 30. for his reume & his wife. arising frō his belly to his chest leeke led hard & hoven in his belly full of winde |1598|

an his wife an ach & gydines in her hed.

RN M^r Iohn Mounson \S^r Will sons and haire/ natꝯ Sept. 10 h {sic} hor. 12. p m 1597. w^th a {illeg} kell on his face \{k}ell on his {face}/

subiect to \hot/ feavers. hedach vertigo. eyes seemeth to see like motes at his right arme voydeth filthy impostumed stuffe at his nose of late. feeleth a wȳdynes at his stomack

RN Alce Travell of Rhode 26. youngest child 2 yeres old. goeth abroad hath a payne in her hed w^th a swiming & a gydines ready to fall if she catch not some thinge. May the 19 die ♄. h. 2. p m. 1599.

RN Goody linsecū of Stony stratford 40 y Decēb. 26 ♄ hor. 9. 39. ant m. 1607. wonderfully payned in her hed a longe tyme very gydye.

RN M^res Iane Rolte 25 y old. for a gyddines in her head a payne in her stomacke ceding frō sorrowe & greefe. her husb. a counseller. 7 child: may i9 die ☾ h. 8. 45. ant m. 1600 /vtrū sit gravida\

RN Edward Bodington of Cole brayfild decēb 14 ☿ hor. 11. 50 ant m 1603.

hath buried on a daught^r yesterday. a sone a fortnight sinc & anoth^r Daught^r a moneth since

now his wife is not very well & light in her hed & an ache in her thighe also he hath a sōne of xx y & a \younge/ womā. y^t was not well mended being let blood.

RN vseth to bleed mutch at nose & yest night he bleede a quart & so /also before y^t he swonded w^th it waterish blood.\ h. 12. 20 p m 1627 /novēb. 4. ☉ h. 12. 20 p {sic} 1627\ |head ach.|

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.

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.

RN Ione Barnewell a great payne in her head sept 19 die ♀ h. 3. 15 p m 1600

head light cānot sleepe.

RN Agnes Knight of Cosgrave 28. y. payned in her head w^th a gydines goeth over {ra}ck & harte maketh her to vomitte Octob. 22 die ☾ h. 12.

RN Agnys Deane of litle Brickill 50 y. August i6 ☾ hor. 12. 1602. payned in her head gydy & light cānot abyde to see the water.

RN mres Slyddā of Olnye 70 y octob. 13 h {sic} hor. 10|1|. 15. ant m 16i0

payned in her hed ready to stagger & swound.

RN Iane Wooden of Turvey 52 y. Ap. 10 ☿ h. 8. 30 ant m. 1622 \eys red & sore/ |a swying gydynes in her head.| /head benūmed\

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 Thomas Bartom. 15 yeres sick this 5 weekes. nothing will tary w^th him for this fortnight lyeth in his hed light headed. Martij 8. die ♃. h. 9. 10. 1599. at Newport.

his fath^r moved a question at the same time or a quart^r after 9. for a payne in his knee w^c was broken his thigh was broken quite thorough & nowe the paine is fallen into his knee pan & is swollen.

RN An Goodrick of Lathbury 32. hed & neck pricking left side her hed was gyddye. shee had a child 9 month a goe troubled w^th a gydy hed. Novemb 2. die ♃. h. 3. 30.