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CASE43074: Horary consultation concerning Old Mrs Ursula Warner (PERSON36494)

Question asked by the patient on 25 March 1616 at 09:40

RN Mres \vrsula/ warner of Hyēs feryes 30 y march. 25 {illeg}|☾| h. 9. 40 ant m. 16i6.

full of melancholy. & would know wheather yt |she| be not is poysned.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 408, f. 38r (bottom left part of page)

Old Mrs Ursula Warner (PERSON36494)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Melancholy )

Medical  (Poison)

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

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CASE49216: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Mary Olive [Hore] (PERSON33796)

Question asked by the patient on 12 July 1619 at 11:00

RN Mary Olive \Hores sister/ of Askot 30 y Iuly 12. ☾ h. 11 ant m 1619: /a yere sinc mightely hoaven & swelled. \now very leane & sclender./\1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘melancholy & apt to depsayre’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 235, f. 93r (upper left, and bottom right parts of page)

Mrs Mary Olive [Hore] (PERSON33796)

Medical >Diseases of the mind  (Melancholy Despair)

Practitioner: Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] (PERSON5218) Treatment Judgment 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?f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ADiseases%20of%20the%20mind%3A%3AMelancholy;f5-querent-age-band=030-039%3A%3A30;f6-info=Urine, accessed 6 February 2025.

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