CASE70260: Horary consultation concerning Mr Clopton (PERSON46369)
Question asked by the patient on 17 March 1630 at 21:00
Mr. Rous Clopton of Corp. Chri Coll. Oxon 35. y. Mart. 17. ☿. h. 9. p. m. 1630
[Astrological Chart]
A greiuous Headache takes him at Midnight sometimes in one te of ye head & sometimes in ye other te, but especially in ye left side of his heade, wch makes ye places outwardly sore where ye paine hath beene.1
A continually Noyse in his head wth a tearinge paine as yf it would pull one skyn from another, wch comes sometimes suddenly like a strech, & then is gone in an instant
A dizines in ye 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 ye stomack or spleene, from a cold or{illeg} hote cause
Hath beene let Bloud in ye right arme, & vnder the tongue, & in ye forehead, beeinge tolde by the Physitian ythis greife was caused by fullnes of Bloud
Hath taken Pills & Electuaryes sundry times, but his paine noethinge deminished
Hath for many years beene troubled wth a soundinge & noyse in his head, but neuer wth paine till nowe Feareth a Disposition to the Palsye or Apoplexye Desires Receits & Directions to preuent these two capitall Dangers.
Notes:
1 ‘Extreame Headache’ in chart
Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 177 (upper left part of page)