Casebooks

RN M^res Blundell sent to me to come to Her daughter Susan about 12 yeres old who layd speechles for a weeke & after wardꝭ spak a worde or two. who h is troubled day & night w^th diverse fittꝭ & hath falleth often & nowe hath no vse of hed necke legs handꝭ or {sic} an but only of her eyes & yet eateth & hath a good colour. 1598 Ian die 20. die ♀ h: post merid. 1. 45.

mater  filia Susan Blund: Ian. 20 die ♀ h post merid 1. 45. 1598.

RN Mres Leate did write vnto me touching her daughter Denys. that she is mended in bodye but anys {sic} in mynd. Octob. 26 ♃ h. 5. 38 p m 1609

her nother {sic} craveth ny {sic} helpe prayers & consell. & is willing to marry her but her daught^r myndeth it not./

RN M^r Chāberlyn of Wicken son 30 y D {sic} Ian. 3. ♀ h. 11. ant m 1611 {sic} tooke his purge & pils. & wrought sorely many stooles & is very sick & ill after them. & troubled w^th mutch wyndynes of stomack & flushing heate.

RN An Astwick of Stock hāmon 33 y. Aug. 9 ☾ h. 10. ant m 1613. \mayed {sic} payned {sic}/ payned in her shoulders armes knees & in her legs w^th some swelling. a wydow ill ever sinc shrovetyde. 2 child boath ded.

RN Mres Podder \the younger/ of Potters Perry 30|3| y Ap 30 ♃ h 11. 30 p m {sic} 1618.

hath not had the right course of her body these 3 yers.

feareth a cōsumption |& what is good to kepe her frō it|

vyyn {sic} very good.

would have a purge for her selfe & her husb. who feareth his father disease careth not for meate is Iealous of his wife being very honest & chast. & is sometyes {sic} lunatick & mad 4 y. & a halfe every 3 or 4 days.

he thincketh y^t he is bewitched w^th on a womā y^t gave his mother physick./

& M^r Pedders w{at^r} Ap 30 ♃ h.

RN Elis Grenwood of Moulsoe 30|8| y Iune 11 ♃ h. 11. 25 ant m. 1618. troubled w^th a great touthach & swelling in her face & lips. head ill.

RN mary Burges of Raunce 38 y taken chest back & belly & made her vomyt lame y^t she cā scarce goe but must be led is very sore cā not abyde to be touched. it tooke her vppon August 2. ☉ h. 10. 30 ant m 1618

RN Temperanc Negous \of Dunton in Bedfordsheere/ 30 y Ap 27 ♂ h. 9. 3{8} ant m 1619

thursd next a m{oneth} brought a bed & is full of mela{nch} despayring & off{ering} to drown her selfe was so a y{ere} sinc & mended {w^th} y^t I sent her gods name be p{raysed} for it

faynt & weake

cōpl of her belly {& a} gryping

Doubteth of gods g{race}

Temperanc Negous of Dunton by Bedford 30 y Ap 27 ♂ h. 9. 39 ant m 1619

RW Roger Neale of shelswell y. 38. d. ☉. ho 8. 26. ant: m Novemb: 7. 1619. taken vpon Fryday last with a giddyenesse in his head & with a prickinge in his head & face: something ready to stop his wind in his throate, vomiteth mutch all that hee taketh. RN |Squincy feard| RW

RW M^ris Godwine of Cardington. y. 39. d. ♂ h: 9. 40 ant: m: Feb: 29. 1620. hath had a cold 3 weekꝭ: & a great cough: w^ch settled to her right |left| side: but is removed frō thence: Cryeth out of her heart: & sayth it swimmeth in water: is much plexed & troubled. cannot sleepe nor take rest for 4 nights now togither. her stomacke is so ill that she can not take anie thinge but posset ale & broths.

RN Katherine Grene /25\ first taken w^th \it tooke/ an arising frō her stomack ready to stop her wynd Martij 7. ☿ h. 11. p m 162i |is so sick y^t she cā take no rest.|

It tooke her in her hart & left sy right & short ribs pricking like needles. |suckleth a child halfe a yere old|

RN M^r Iohn Faldoe of Goldington 30 y Ap 18 ☿ h. 11 ant m 162i

1 for his cōsupt {sic} feared stitches on his left syde. 2 his cough. 3 cold sweatꝭ. 4 his costivenes.

RN Iohn Bolton of Byssetour 33 y Ap. 2. ♂ h. 11 ant m 1622 troubled in mynd w^th ill thoughtꝭ. & is very light headed & cānot sleepe a yere. had pils & was let blood last yere. the Divell Doth rū in his mynd./ |goody plowright susp.|

RN my Cosen Warren \Reeve/ sent me a letter Ian 25 h {sic} hor 3 \25/ p m 1623 last weeke voyded vp blood 3 tymes. to the quantity of halfe a pynt is very ill feaversh {sic} weake & feeble & cānot slepe

desyrous of some cordiall & of my advice

RN S^r Iames Evington my nephew came to see h me & to conferre w^th me about his sicknes & cold may 5 ♂ h. 8 2|3|0 ant m. 1629 /left syde of his face hot spots red\¹

RN Agnys Bigh {sic} \Bigge/ /Bigge\ of Bleadloe 32 y Ian 28 ♀ h. 7 30 ant m 1631 |Aguish water red but thin| /mayed {sic}\

stitch vnder her syde head gydy & shaketh cānot hold still her head \on child 3 y/ very drye in her stomack & mouth.

RN Mres white of London 30. y. ♀ h 12. 1631 / soc{illeg}|r|o {sic} socro m^r Kent y^t hath a dead palsye cānot speake to bed vnderstood\ |a bad stomack Costive onc in 5 days.| |stomack.|

loynes & stitch stone

vtrū socrus paralyticꝯ sit moriturus. sine consensu

M^rs Elizabeth Sanders. of Perry. 25 \32/ y Febr. 20. ☾ h. 1. p m. 1632.

Sicknesse 2 nights, hote & colde by fitts stopping in her stomack, can nether eate not rest well, the great paine in her Back, feares a Consumption makes water very difficultly 6. or 7 weekes

Desires y^t shee may take noe Phisick

TG Sara Bishop of tringe Annos 31. calebs melancholica, dolore capitis cervicis, lateris dextri et stomachi adeo mentis gravedine vexata

RN Mathewe Walsore of Buckginham {sic} 30. musicꝯ. may 26 die ☾ h. 1. 3 26. p m. 1600

paynd in his \head &/ chest by reason of a wound receaved but healed w^ch maketh him cast. alwyys {sic} leane somtimes voydeth leeke matter & choler. spade bone of his shoulder perisheth his lungs. & francis Walso|ge|re 28. his wif paynd w^th a windines in her stomacke.