Casebooks

RN The lady fortiscue sen{t} at this tyne {sic} {illeg} {sic} melancholye & a h {sic} singing in her eare & cā take no rest full of wyd {sic}

D Griffens \or Gifford/ course of physick wheby the \Old/ Lady fortiscue was receaved octob 5 ☿ h. 2. 15 p m 163i or {sic}

RN Mres Edmunds of Shenly for a windcholicke. & for a swiming in her hed. may the 18 die ♀ h. 2. 27 m p m. 1599.

RN Goodmā Boughton maij 17 ☾ hor 9. \10./ 54 y. 1602. for headach & wynd cholick

RN Rich: Child octob. of Sheaford 50 y octob. 28 y h {sic} hor 10. 39 ant m 16i5. hed stomack & wynd.

RN M^r Iames Swynnoe of Kelsye by Royston. 50 y may 11 ♂ h. {illeg}|3|. 20 p m 1624

for a gydynes of the head & a great wyndynes./

RN Margaret Raynolds of havershā {illeg} 50 y march. 19 ♂ h. 3 p m 1605. /wynd cholicke.\¹

Michael Paradice of Potterne in Wiltshire 56. y. Apr. 30. ♀. h. 5. 45. p m. 1630

A Great winde runinge vp & downe sometimes betweene the Skin, sometimes in all places of the Body, sometimes in y^e heade & sometimes swellinge downe into the twist & into the Codds, as yf hee were bursten, a great rumblinge & noise in the gutts, & is worst at the full of the Moone: many Phisitians haue tryed but none could doe him good y^e winde is soe stronge, & p^rualent. hee desireth Counsell & helpe yf God bee soe pleased.

RN mich Paradyse.

RN M^r George Burye for his wife troubled w^th melancholy & sudden passions. troubled w^th windines & payne in her stomacke & dissynes in her head. May. the 12. die ♄. h. 11. 15 ant m. 1599.

RN M^r Will: Co{l|e|}lles Colles of Parke berrye of 58 troubled sick this i6 yeres & hath had the Counsell of the most exte phisitions troubled w^th a windy cause as he sayth cōming from his backe by a great heate & obstruction from my liver. also w^th a bad stomacke elevating winde into my hed. w^ch causeth gydines or streming in my head w^ch cometh as he thinketh by the ascending vp of bad & melancholy humours & w^th a shaking in my left hand mightely as it were the palsye but always very hotte. nowe of late w^th the brevity of wind in my stomacke & chest & lately w^th a mūmnes {sic} & tinckling in my hands. lips & sydes & face. this 15 of may. die ♂ h. 4. 45. p m. 1599.

RN Agnes Rutland of Newnton Longfild. 53. sick this day fortnight. payned in her hed harte & all the body over. cannot abide vp: costive onc in 2 or 3 days. maij 1. die ♂ h. 12. 10. m. 1599.

Ambrose Rudland of Newton her husband. a payne in his stomack & eyes. a Corpulent man & fully faced. eodem tempore/

Iohn Rutland w^th a payne in his Chest & stomacke wyndye & a stitch in his syde