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CASE12118: Horary consultation concerning Margaret Miller (PERSON14190)

Question asked by the patient on 21 March 1599 at 11:45

RN Margaret Miller a widow at Calverton 60 yeres old in her lims troubled wth a great heate & sweate. 2i of March. die h. 11. 30|45| ant m. 1599. doubteth of her death.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 108r (upper right part of page)

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CASE46283: Horary consultation concerning an Anonymous (PERSON32228)

Question asked by Mr George Kempton (PERSON32223) on 28 March 1618 at 15:40

RN my Cosen Georg for his wife mach {sic} 28 {}|h| {sic} hor. 3. 40 p m 1618. boath her hads {sic} very hot & drye

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 201, f. 37v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE70325: Horary consultation concerning Mr Taylor (PERSON59914)

Question asked by the patient on 26 March 1630 at 18:00

RN Mr Taylour march. 26.

Mr Taylor march. 26 h. 6 p m 1630

[Astrological Chart]

sent to signify vnto me yt the heate of the soules of his feete will not let him sleepe his feete be so paynfull.1

Notes:

1 ‘cānot sleepe’ in the left margin

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 194, p. 201, p. 206 (p. 201 middle right, and p. 206 upper left)

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CASE21268: Decumbiture for Mr Richard Napier [Sandy] [Richard Napier [Senior]] (PERSON5218)

Question asked by the patient on 16 July 1604 between 05:00 and 08:00

RN Rich n. cōplayned this 16 of Iuly very mutch of his right towe heate pricking & swelling & could not sleepe for payne {illeg}|h| 4|5|. ant m. 1604.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 415, f. 108v (upper left part of page)

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CASE12836: Horary consultation concerning John Lane (PERSON13556)

Question asked by the patient on 22 October 1599 at 12:30

RN Iohn Lane of Shenly. 62. Octob. 22 die h. 12. 30. hot back & reanes & huckbone yt it maketh him vomitte.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 223r (upper right part of page)

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CASE12356: Horary consultation concerning Arthur Smith (PERSON15876)

Question asked by the patient on 1 May 1599 at 09:30

RN Arthur Smithe of Woulverton. 36. payned in the bodye nowe & lims & knees. & hath a great hote stomack and mutch bounde. arms this 7 yeres & hath spent mutch monye. faynt & feeble. maij 1. die h. 9. {illeg}|3|0. ant m. 1599.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 145v (upper right part of page)

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CASE58675: Horary consultation concerning Jane Brown (PERSON45054)

Question asked by the patient on 30 June 1624 at 09:20

RN {Ia}ne Browne of Adington {2}9. y christ Iuly \Iune Iuly/ 20. 1595. sent to me Iuly Iune 30 h. 9. 20 ant m 1624 /neaver had child.\1

[Astrological Chart]

Iane Browne of Adin{gton} 29. y. Iune 30 h 19. 20 a{nt} m. 1624. paraliticall tormented wth heate & a burning payne in her belly & shooting into her legs & belly hath no vse of her lims cā not stand nor goe /sweateth mutch.\

Notes:

1 ‘lame miserablely tormēted wth raging payns & convuls in her legs day & night’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 3r (upper left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE30370: Horary consultation concerning Mr Freeman (PERSON23305)

Question asked by the patient on 17 December 1606 at 14:30

RN Mr fremā came to me enquiring of his heate of hands full of melancholy decēb. 17. h. 2. 30 p m 1606. discontent. very pale & wan.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 193, f. 35r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE27273: Horary consultation concerning William Hopkins (PERSON12942)

Question asked by the patient on 17 April 1606 at 18:00

RN Wylliā Hopkins at the same tyme sent to me to know what would aswage the great heate & intollerable ach of his leg

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 215, f. 126v (upper left part of page)

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CASE12124: Horary consultation concerning Richard Burton (PERSON10226)

Question asked by the patient on 22 March 1599 at 14:00

RN Rich: Burton of Olny 59. payned in his armes {in} his boath his armes but princip the left: he doth mutch {rvome} & is very hot. cane {sic} to ne {sic} this 22 of March. die h. 2. 1599.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 109r (bottom left part of page)

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CASE28009: Horary/Geomantic combined concerning John Jefferies (PERSON20019)

Question asked by the patient on 22 August 1606 at 14:50

GJ Iohn Ieffry of Tingewicke 34 y Aug. 22 ho. 2. 50 p. m. 1606 A swelling in his knee tooke him on monday was sevenight burnes and is very hott that he cannot sleepe the left knee he sweates as he lyes

[Astrological Chart]

metuit veneficiū

[Preliminary Geomantic Chart]

[Geomantic Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 215, f. 255r (bottom left, and upper right parts of page)

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CASE11767: Horary consultation concerning Harry Gooding (PERSON12227)

Question asked by Gooding (PERSON12226) on 29 October 1598 at 13:00

RN Harry Goodin taken lame in his left leg not swollen he cannot styrre his right side. in his leg & huck bone he layd in the fild Downe & being hote tooke a colde. this day or monday was sennet 17 d 16 last Christmas eve. 1598. pater filio et filius oravit patrē. vt me consulet morbo. Octob. 29 die h. 1. 1598. it took him in the fild as if it were prickt with nales. he cryeth out whē it is touched.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 45v (upper left part of page)

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CASE60412: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Anderson (PERSON42687)

Question asked by the patient on 6 May 1625 at 11:25

RN Mres Anderson her letter London may 6 h. 11 25 1625

wheathr leaches are good for her {illeg}|b|y tyes & what good to vse for the extrme {sic} heat in her hands & coldnes of her feete 3 what to quench her great drouth & thirste. 4 to make her sleepe

Is cōtinually Drye would know my iudg touching her fortune

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 217, f. 86r (upper right part of page)

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CASE12145: Horary consultation concerning Thomasin Nailor (PERSON14330)

Question asked by the patient on 26 March 1599 at 16:50

RN Tomson Nayler of Codomor in Whaddon chase for her hed. 40. had not her termes never since {illeg} {sic} Christmas. a flushing heate in her hed & shoulders. sweate. 26 of March. die {2}|4|. 50. mi.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 112v (upper left part of page)

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CASE75003: Horary consultation concerning Goody Anne [Agnes] Southam (PERSON59288)

Question asked by the patient on 3 July 1632 at 12:40

RN Goody Southam of Coaten 37 y {illeg}|I|uly. 3 h. 12 40 p m 1632

aches & shooting in her leg /vtrū grav\ & a flushing heate. /had thē a fortnight since\

9 childrē.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 282 (bottom right part of page)

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CASE49923: Horary consultation concerning Goodman William Young (PERSON37175)

Question asked by the patient on 9 November 1619 at 15:00

RN Will Young of Illing beyond St yeedes 58 y novēb. 9 h. 3. p m 1619.

an aguish thick red water. / sick the thursd before St Nich his day. a twelfemonth something smyt him on the chest le{illeg}|n|ing {sic} \leaning/ agaynst a tree by wth mutch gryping in his belly a swelling in his body sometymes hot & sometymes cold wth a nūmnes in his legs yt he cānot goe for it. loose body. cānot eate nor drinke by fits.

is vp every day more or les.

Is so swelled in his body yt he cā scarce get his cleathes togeathr by fits his legs

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 213, f. 51v (upper left part of page)

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CASE74092: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Margaret Catesby (PERSON45757)

Question asked by the patient on 21 March 1632 at 13:30

RN Mres Margaret Catesbe now soiourning at Hardmead 23 y 4 childrē youngest a quarter of a yere march. 21. h. 1 30 p m 1632.

vtrū gravida. stomack ill |a heate in her hand & purpels.| 5 child living

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 13 (upper right part of page)

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CASE53661: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Thomasin Gray [Old Mrs Gray] (PERSON50270) and Ellen [Eleanor] Lattyn (PERSON53402) and Lady Kniveton (PERSON53180)

Question asked by Mrs Thomasin Gray [Old Mrs Gray] (PERSON50270) on 7 March 1622 at 09:30

RN Mres Gray of Hincksworth. 56 y march 7 h. 9. 30 ant m. 1622.

is was mended of her leg & the swelling but then her head & eys were ill but sinc of late it brake agayne is prty well amended her leg i {sic} Issueth blod & hath always so done. |x y sinc had a bloody water./|

would know wheathr the humour be hot.

And wheathr an Issue will doe her serv. \nell/ good & when. craveth no physick but m|b|y ridgmont.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 16r (upper left 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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CASE51806: Horary consultation concerning Benjamin Hubbins (PERSON52034)

Question asked by the patient on 20 November 1620 at 13:00

RW Beniamin Hubbins of Astwood y. 26. d. h: 1: p: m: Novemb. 20 1620. swelled in his left leg: yesterday his right leg was swelled but now it is come into his left leg: payned in his left eare, & so downewards. had a purge 10 dayes since wch wrought well & he was much the better for it: now worse then he was. complayneth more of heate then of colde then of heate. did complayne at the first more of heate then of colde. cannot sleepe.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 233, f. 13r (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%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ALimbs%20and%20joints;f5-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3ABurning%20and%20inflamed%3A%3AHot;f6-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29, accessed 15 March 2025.