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CASE70232: Horary consultation concerning Thomas Wright (PERSON62335)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON41103) on 14 March 1630 at 13:00

U[1628–30] Thomas write {illeg} was borne on \the next/ satterday at night after on michelmus was twelmounth, betweene a 11 or 12 at|or| i3, a Clock but cam to me at 1 of clock, ye 14th: of march 1630./

had a quiuorin & sounding on michelmus last & 3 Dayes the after ye small pox & then at shroftide & this last night had 3 fitts after the same manner a boue saide, being ye 13th Day complaines on the head & heauie & apt to sleepe

[Blank Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 164 (upper, bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE78774: Horary consultation concerning Anne (PERSON42326)

Question asked by Mr Lin [Esquire] (PERSON53749) on 30 January 1634 at 11:00

RN Annys Anne |a poor wench| /13 y\ of Southwick in Northāptonsheere by Owndall |Mr Lynn Esquire wrote in her behalfe| It tooke her 16. Ian 16 fell into her fits of convulsions swonding fits wth quaking & trēbling Ian 30. h. 11 ant m 1634 taketh away her speach swoundeth convuls1

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1Epilep: cū convuls’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 412, f. 78v (upper right part of page)

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CASE77897: Horary consultation concerning Nathaniel Piddington (PERSON56726)

Question asked by the patient on 22 July 1633 at 10:00

RN Nathaniel Pyddington of Culewort 29 y a batch. Iuly. 22 h. 10 ant m 1633.

had an Ague & a cough the Ague is gone but the cough remeaneth spitteth mutch & riddeth ill stuffe & is hoarse wth it & grown very weake & cānot goe

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 211, p. 327 (upper right part of page)

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CASE73223: Horary consultation concerning Mr Kent (PERSON52787)

Question asked by Mrs White (PERSON61617) on 21 October 1631 at 12:00

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

[Astrological Chart]

loynes & stitch stone

vtrū socrus paralytic sit moriturus. sine consensu

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 212, p. 243 (upper right 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?f3-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AIllnesses%20%28named%29;f5-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ALame%2C%20numb%20or%20paralysed;f6-date=1630-1639, accessed 6 February 2025.