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CASE19734: Horary consultation concerning Malins (PERSON13877)

Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) on 5 August 1601 at 09:00

RN here I my selfe inquire wheathr the child will die or noe.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 169v (bottom left part of page)

Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218)Malins (PERSON13877)

Medical >Prognosis  (Life or death (medical))

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment Outcome(s)Astrological Chart Patient’s death recorded 

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CASE18831: Horary consultation concerning Robinson (PERSON15401)

Question asked by Mrs Mary Robinson [Sandy] [Napier] (PERSON6319) on 20 October 1600 at 18:00

RN Soror Sandy petit an soror sua Robinson quæ valde egrotat lately delivered but ever miscarid in child bead vtru morietr. Octob. 20 die ☾ hor 6 p m. 1600.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 16r (upper right part of page)

Mrs Mary Robinson [Sandy] [Napier] (PERSON6319)Robinson (PERSON15401)

Medical >Illness (general) (Aegritudo)

Medical >Women’s matters (Childbirth complications)

Medical >Prognosis  (Life or death (medical))

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Outcome(s)Astrological Chart Patient’s death recorded 

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-shelfmark=MS%20Ashmole%20404;f24-info=Patient%E2%80%99s%20death%20recorded;f25-question-asked=Medical%3A%3APrognosis, accessed 17 April 2025.

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