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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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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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CASE69927: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON41064)

Question asked by the patient on 7 January 1630 at 11:30

RN A poer bagger womā cōpl of prickings shootings in head & legs almost 2 y caused by an ill body yt she susp Ian 7 h. 11. 30 ant m 1630

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 48 (middle right part of page)

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CASE18814: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON18397)

Question asked by the patient on 20 January 1599 at 08:00

RN Ian. 20 die hor 8 I went to see a sick woma swollen in her legs & thighes for that shee hath not her courses. hed ach 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 404, f. 13r (upper right part of page)

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CASE38122: Horary consultation concerning Mr Robert Hudson (PERSON31925)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON37526) on 13 May 1611 at 10:15

RN Mr Hudsons man for his master tooke a fall at Tiddington frō a house & fell downe. may 13 h. 10. 15 ant m 1611 & he felt on his hed belly swelleth & legs.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 200, f. 97r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE11660: Horary consultation concerning William Pipkin (PERSON14968)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON17603) on 30 August 1598 at 17:07

RN Will: Pipkin 6 yeres old at Miklemas payned in the back & neck & head & belly & legs quærit causā eius remediū refuseth his meate Aug 30. die h. p m. 5. 7. m.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 23r (upper right part of page)

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CASE37610: Horary consultation concerning Walter Cheese (PERSON28872)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON37483) on 25 February 1611 at 16:15

RN Water Cheese of Stony stratford borne the last night being about betwixt 5 & six 20 weekes sinc. her disease & first fit tooke it feb 21 h 4. p m 1611. it did shake wth the hands & wryteth {sic} ye mouth & hed & clutcheth the hands & grypeth. & falleth. the first daye 2 fits. yesterday & this day may {sic} fits.

water good.

{sen}|{wro}|te to me febr. 25 h. 4. 15. p m 1611.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 200, f. 23v (bottom left part of page)

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CASE46642: Decumbiture for Robert Rider (PERSON34748)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38394) on 16 May 1618 at 08:00

RN may 8 at fryday it tooke him about 12 in the night it first tooke him in his legs wth a shooting & sinc it rūneth vp into his hed making him to talke idlely a light head |Is grown starke mad.|

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Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 101v (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-querent-identified=No, accessed 24 March 2025.