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CASE73266: Interrogation (Treatment) concerning Sir Kenelm Digby [Mr Kenelm Digby] (PERSON22921)

Question asked by Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218) on 28 October 1631 between 09:30 and 11:00

RN Sr Kenelme Digbie \being wth me/ had of me 2 glasses of the pul philosoph ♄ & on glas cū liquore ♄ sufused on the pulvis octob 28 ♀ h 9 30 ant m 163i |for vertigo & cōfort thīgs for ye breane|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 258 (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218)Sir Kenelm Digby [Mr Kenelm Digby] (PERSON22921)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Dizzy and/or faint  (Vertigo )

Medical >Parts of the body >Head and neck  (Brain)

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

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CASE11682: Horary consultation concerning Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218)

Question asked by the patient on 11 September 1598 at 15:53

RN R N. valde ægrotabat corde capite et stomacho. quæritur causā. Sept. 11. die ☾. h. 3. 53 m. post m. 1598 apoplexia et verti

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 27v (bottom left part of page)

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

Medical >Illness (general) (Aegritudo)

Medical >Parts of the body >Torso (HeartStomach)

Medical >Parts of the body >Head and neck  (Head)

Medical >Illnesses (named) (Apoplexy)

Medical >Symptoms (specified) >Dizzy and/or faint  (Vertigo )

Medical  (Cause of the affliction)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Astrological 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?f29-how-did-it-take-place=Question%20asked%20in%20person%3A%3AAt%20unspecified%20location;f30-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AHead%20and%20neck;f31-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ADizzy%20and%2For%20faint%3A%3AVertigo, accessed 10 April 2025.

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