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CASE18254: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Alice Farren (PERSON11675)

Question asked by the patient on 20 November 1602 at 11:45

RN Alce farnell \farren/ of filgrave 34 y. novēb. 20. hor. 11. 45 p ant m. 1602.

for red spots in her hands head & about her knees.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 247r (upper left part of page)

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CASE10290: Horary consultation concerning Anne Goodridge (PERSON12274)

Question asked by the patient on 9 April 1600 at 18:00

RN An Goodridg of lathbury for her head & lims 33. Ap 9 die h. 6 p m. 1600

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 33v (upper left part of page)

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CASE31993: Horary consultation concerning Goody Margaret Chivoll (PERSON22510)

Question asked by the patient on 31 August 1607 at 15:45

RN Goody Chivoll of \north/ Crowly 57 y Aug. 31. h. 3 {illeg}|4|5 an|p| m 1607. hed arme

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 193, f. 265v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE19512: Decumbiture for Robert Kinsweeke (PERSON13411)

Question asked by the patient on 4 July 1601 at 08:00

RN Robart Kinsweeke of Elstoe 54 y. taken in London taken on the right syde fyngers head & feete wth a swelling. Apr. 25. vppon St Markes Day being satterday betwixt 6 & 7 in the morning. was first taken. Apr. 25. die hor 6. 30. ant m. 160i. betwixt 3 & 4 aftr noone could not styrre & the sunday morning could not speake

[Partial Astrological Chart]

he was blasted in a garden.1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘blasted in a garden’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 404, f. 134r (upper left part of page)

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CASE10600: Horary consultation concerning Mr William Lyne (PERSON13848)

Question asked by the patient on 17 May 1600 between 12:30 and 16:00

RN Will: Line of lowten 3|4|1. y. maij 17 die . came to me for his head shoulder bone & spitteth bloode.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 72r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE10926: Horary consultation concerning Margaret Collins (PERSON10769)

Question asked by the patient on 23 June 1600 at 07:45

RN Margaret Collings 50 y. a sickly woman Iune 22|3| die h. 7. 45. ant m. 1600 lay in her head & nowe gone into her thighes / wonderfully hote.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 121r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE15201: Horary consultation concerning Goody Markham (PERSON13956)

Question asked by the patient on 22 June 1603 at 18:15

RN At the same tyme Goody Markum of our towne sente to mee for physick for her hed & lyms

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 93r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE12941: Horary consultation concerning Goody Margaret Marshal (PERSON14022)

Question asked by the patient on 2 January 1600 at 14:15

RN Margaret Marchell of Woulverton {illeg}|4|0 y. Ian 2 die h. 2. p m. 15. m. 1599. aches in her lims & legs & head. /1600\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 246v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE16946: Horary consultation concerning Jane Walbank (PERSON16730)

Question asked by the patient on 18 May 1602 at 09:36

RN wheathr her Daught Iane walbancke 15. y maij 18 h. 9. 36. ant m 1602 armes shoulders blewe spots leeke scabs on her legs.1

Notes:

1 ‘back head shoulders armes.’ supralinear

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 48r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE15006: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON18015)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON18014) on 25 May 1603 at 13:30

GJ A man of              For his Child 6 y. old that hath many fitt of falling in a day. and great payne of the head and legg

Epilepsia. Maij 25 ho. 1. 30 p m. 1603

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 207, f. 75r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE17779: Horary consultation concerning Dorothy Creake (PERSON11044)

Question asked by the patient on 23 August 1602 at 16:00

RN Dorothy Creake of Hardmead 20 y. August 23. hor. 4. p m. 1602

head beateth armes legs cānot goe

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 182v (upper right part of page)

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CASE28690: Horary consultation concerning William Stoe (PERSON20886)

Question asked by the patient on 18 April 1605 at 09:25

RN Williā Stoe of the parish of Parsnā 43 y. Apr 18 hor. 9. 25. ant m i605 /hed feete & toes shortwyded\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1metuit morbū gallicū./’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 216, f. 47v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE18322: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Thornton (PERSON16423)

Question asked by the patient on 29 November 1602 at 12:30

RN Agnys Thorneton 40 \38/ y of Eckton Novemb 29 hor. 12. 30 p m 1602. {mi}|Wo|nderfully tormented in her throate cānot swallowe any thinge ioynt ill shoulder & head as if it would pull her in peeces. & yet not harte sicke. suspect some to have done her harme on of them was hanged & thothr in northāpton geale Alce Smyth thought to have done all the mischiefe who is nowe in pryson. ever sinc whitsontyde

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 256r (upper right part of page)

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CASE15062: Decumbiture for Thomas Franklin (PERSON11915)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON18031) on 3 June 1603 at 15:30

GJ This morning betweene 7 & 8 there came sodenly in the bed a great payne in the right legge that the Childe Cryed wthall

Thomas Franklyn of marston / Now it hold him extreemely in head and the braynes do so beat in the head that it styrres the Clothes as it lyes in the bed, sore every where Cannot endure to be styrred. /

ho Insultus morbi 1603 Iunij 3. ho. 7. 30 a m

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 80r (bottom left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE16979: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Stap (PERSON16130)

Question asked by the patient on 22 May 1602 at 07:45

RN Elisabeth Step of Dunsanger 17 y. {m} {sic} hor. 7. 45. ant m. 1602. vseth lightly every moneth to breake out wth a white scab over face head armes feete & eares. Maij 22 .

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 54r (upper left part of page)

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CASE21589: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Hedge (PERSON12705)

Question asked by the patient on 15 October 1604 at 11:25

RN Elis: Hedges of lechāsteed 20 y Octob 15. hor. 11. 25. ant m 1604. hed armes & legs cānot goe shortwyded greene sicknes.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 415, f. 161v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE13890: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Dorothy Davers (PERSON11170)

Question asked by the patient on 5 July 1603 at 15:40

RN Mres Dorothy Davers 13. Iuly 5. hor 3. 40. p m. 1603. hyps & hed canot stand faynt feeble stomacke.

[Astrological Chart]

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 197, f. 59r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE17621: Decumbiture for John Cox (PERSON11012)

Question asked by the patient on 31 July 1602 at 11:53

RN afterwards his senses were taken awaye in ye fi{l}d Iuly 29 {sic} \27./ hor. 5. 3. 6. p m 1602 his head now aketh a litle. shoulders

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 157v (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE11256: Horary consultation concerning John Jackson (PERSON13152)

Question asked by the patient on 8 September 1600 at 10:00

RN Iohn Iackson 14 y. Sept. 8 die h. 10 40. y.

head stomacke hips legs.

loveth to lye

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 172r (upper left part of page)

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CASE14308: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Boddington (PERSON9841)

Question asked by Goodman Edward Boddington (PERSON9834) on 14 December 1603 at 11:50

RN Edward Bodington of Cole brayfild decēb 14 hor. 11. 50 ant m 1603.

hath buried on a daughtr yesterday. a sone a fortnight sinc & anothr Daughtr a moneth since

now his wife is not very well & light in her hed & an ache in her thighe also he hath a sōne of xx y & a \younge/ womā. yt was not well mended being let blood.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 197, f. 121v (upper left 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?f29-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ALimbs%20and%20joints;f30-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AHead%20and%20neck%3A%3AHead;f31-date=1600-1609, accessed 24 March 2025.