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CASE26366: Horary consultation concerning Margery Parrot (PERSON20475)

Question asked by the patient on 13 January 1606 at 13:00

RN Margery Parret of Cranfild 30 y Ian 13 h. 1. p m. 1606. Hucklebone & backe. 4 days extreeme ill.

sinc miklemas. a payne in her backe.

[Astrological Chart]

quæritr an sit gravida. q de eo dubitatr.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 204, f. 19r (upper left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE12288: Horary consultation concerning Anne Trueman (PERSON16583)

Question asked by the patient on 24 April 1599 at 10:00

RN An Trueman of Willing 40. y. sick this fortnight backe & harte. & armes full of ach every foot ill keepeth her bed many times. stomack bad wth it. Ap. 24 die h. 10. ant m. 1599.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 135v (upper right part of page)

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CASE50566: Horary consultation concerning Young Mrs Elizabeth Clark (PERSON29018)

Question asked by the patient on 15 April 1620 at 10:25

RW Mris Clarke of Perry. y. 35. d. h: 10. 25. ant: m: Aprill 15. 1620. troubled with a wheesinge; feareth a Consumption: payned in her backe & legs: ill 4 yeeres.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 173r (upper left part of page)

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CASE11784: Horary consultation concerning Joan Nelson (PERSON14355)

Question asked by the patient on 8 November 1598 at 10:45

RN Ihone Nelson of Moulso of 52 yeres old. sick this 14 yere. always vomiteth vp her meate espec. this last yere. keepeth nowe her bed it g{oo}gleth in her body. yt wc cometh vp is black as sote nothing given her will: make her vomit shee bendeth her selfe forward & always must reatch fleume sick her back & left side & keepeth her bed. & tumbleth vp all 10. 45. ant m 1598. shee feareth lest shee be wasted wthin. 1598. die always cold feete hands novemb. 8.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 49r (upper left part of page)

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CASE63788: Horary consultation concerning Henry Euston (PERSON48605)

Question asked by the patient on 2 May 1627 at 11:00

RW Henry Eustane of Chinner. y: 28. d. . h: 11. ant: m: Maij. 2. 1627. ill 4 weeks /a great payne runneth vp & downe into his back belly & sometimes into his legs.\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 82v (middle centre part of page)

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CASE12663: Horary consultation concerning Mr William White [the elder] (PERSON17063)

Question asked by the patient on 8 September 1599 at 09:38

RN Will: White of Caucot 30. maried. sick vppon tuesday last wth an ache in his left leg huckbone & backe. sept 8 die h. 9. 38. ant m. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 198r (upper left part of page)

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CASE12085: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Emerson (PERSON11591)

Question asked by the patient on 15 March 1599 at 09:49

RN Elisabeth Emmerton of Nash 2i yeres sick this sennet full of paine every where round about her back & lins {sic} & into her hands. 15 of March. die . h. 9. 49. 1599. shee camot {sic} tak any rest day or night light headed

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 103r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE12075: Horary consultation concerning Joan Burton (PERSON10231)

Question asked by the patient between 13 March 1599 at 14:30 and 14 March 1599 at 11:10

RN Iohn Ione Burten of Olney for her diseased chest 44. yeres. lame in her back. fallen downe into her legs. a great hoven in her belly body back wth cold & a trembling ach in her back.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 101v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12385: Horary consultation concerning Goodman Richard Yates (PERSON17453)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON17692) on 5 May 1599 at 12:30

RN Rich. yeat of Cliften Rayles of 50 yeres old hath kept his bed ever since {D} {sic} March last yere lieth in his right arme & left foote & in his backe & syde. may 5. die h. 12. {11}|30|. m. water whitish & thin & full of scales & motes \& black melancholye/ but thrice vp. ever since

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 151r (bottom part of page)

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CASE12162: Horary consultation concerning John Oakley (PERSON14549)

Question asked by the patient on 28 March 1599 at 10:45

RN Iohn Ockley of Dreiten snam of 28. sick ever sinc Candlemas. in his arres {sic} legs & back leeke an ague. March 28 die h. 10. 45. mi ant nn {sic} 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 115v (upper left part of page)

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CASE79165: Horary consultation concerning Jane Sibthorpe (PERSON58730)

Question asked by the patient on 19 September 1634 at 10:30

TG Iane Shipdarp of Hardwell 16 y. 7bris 19. h. 10 30′. 1634. ill her stomacke with running paines in her members & backe.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 156r (middle right part of page)

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CASE11732: Horary consultation concerning Anne Gooding (PERSON12234)

Question asked by the patient on 5 October 1598 at 14:00

RN An Goodin of Emmerton maried about 48. sinc whitsontide ill at her hart & then her back ready to teare a {sic} her harte & exceeding thirsty & Drye. Octob. 5. die h. 2. it tooke her lame in her leg

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 39v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE46113: Horary consultation concerning Goody Em Andrews (PERSON27398)

Question asked by the patient on 4 March 1618 at 09:00

RN Em Androw of Moulsoe 54. y f march 4 h. 9 ant m 1618 /hands & feete doe swell & is ill in her backe her husb thinketh her to be wth child\

[Astrological Chart]

Em Androw of Moulsoe 54 y march 4 h 9 ant m 1618.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 4r (upper right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE12166: Horary consultation concerning Alice White (PERSON17071)

Question asked by the patient on 30 March 1599 at 08:15

RN Alce White of Milton of 5i. at Candlemas a longe time ill by fits. & was had the stone cholick. 7 yeres since nowe in her lims share. harte. & legs back wth a pricking. March 30 die h. 8. 15. 1599

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 116r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12098: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Susan Commendale (PERSON10798)

Question asked by the patient on 19 March 1599 at 10:15

RN Susan Commendall 27. not well this 7 or 8 yeres: benūmed in her lims legs. armes. backe. a hevines in her hed. March 19. die . h. 10. 15. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 105v (upper left part of page)

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CASE72140: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Cob (PERSON46416)

Question asked by the patient on 19 May 1631 at 13:00

RN Mres Elis: Cob of Fensom 36 y may 19. h. 1. p {sic} 1631 had. 13. child hath buryed 6 & hath seaven. living was prsent head, left syde, chest ill:

Is very weake

a great fayntnes in her stomack & legs as she goeth. feareth consūption a burning in her back

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 232, p. 355 (upper left part of page)

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CASE12464: Horary consultation concerning William Colles (PERSON10740)

Question asked by the patient on 15 May 1599 at 16:45

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

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 164r (upper right part of page)

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-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ALimbs%20and%20joints;f28-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso%3A%3ABack;f29-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllness%20%28general%29, accessed 23 March 2025.