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CASE40295: Interrogation (Medical episode) concerning Magdalen Dormer [Curson] [Young Lady Curson] (PERSON22807)

Question asked by the patient on 2 September 1612 between 08:00 and 11:00

RN The lady Tyr Curson voyded Sept. 2. ☿ h. 8. ant m. 1612 {illeg}|w|th a stoole a filthy bag. like an impost.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 409, f. 153r (bottom left part of page)

Magdalen Dormer [Curson] [Young Lady Curson] (PERSON22807)

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

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

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CASE40299: Horary consultation concerning Young Rose Reynolds (PERSON34697)

Question asked by the patient on 2 September 1612 at 17:30

RN young Rose Raynolds /of woulverton\ 22 y. Sept. 2. ☿ h 5 30 p. m. 1612

metuit Apost stomach

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 409, f. 153v (bottom right part of page)

Young Rose Reynolds (PERSON34697)

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

Medical >Parts of the body>Torso (Stomach)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Judgment Outcome(s)Angelic consultationAstrological Chart

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?f27-practitioner-is-patient=No;f28-date=1610-1619%3A%3A1612%3A%3A09;f29-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ALesions%20and%20abscesses%3A%3AImpostume, accessed 2 April 2025.

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