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CASE27941: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Tubbe (PERSON20986)

Question asked by the patient on 11 August 1606 at 13:00

RN Elis. Tubbe of great Horwood 35 y Aug 11 h. 1. p m 1606. mayed {sic} taken wth soden {illeg}ags hed & backe & cā take no rest.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 215, f. 244r (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

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CASE52895: Horary consultation concerning Mary Woodward (PERSON62217)

Question asked by the patient on 25 July 1621 at 13:30

RN mary Woodward of Wavendon 60 y Iuly 25. h. 1. 30 p m. 162i head & backe. back. ever sinc yt she was borne.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 231, f. 55v (bottom right part of page)

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CASE54356: Horary consultation concerning Mr Robert Cook (PERSON46803)

Question asked by the patient on 1 June 1622 at 15:39

RN Robert Cooke of Sommerton 45 y Iue {sic} 1. h {sic} hor. 3 39 p m 1622 head & back

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 138v (upper right part of page)

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CASE41346: Horary consultation concerning Mr Allen (PERSON27324)

Question asked by the patient between 10 May 1613 at 14:00 and 11 May 1613 at 18:00

RN Mr Allen 6|7|0 y pils neck shoulders back syde of his head. swelling in his bones costivenes

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 199, f. 119r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE14222: Horary consultation concerning Joan Gale (PERSON12035)

Question asked by the patient on 26 November 1603 at 12:00

RN Ione Gale of Okelye 5{illeg}|2| y novemb. 26 h {sic} hor 12. p |in| 1603

backe & hed.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 197, f. 111r (upper left part of page)

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CASE53774: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Rachel Basket (PERSON43702)

Question asked by the patient on 28 March 1622 at 12:00

RN Mres Rachell Basket 20 y March 28 h. 12 1622. |hed back & stomack.|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 35r (upper right part of page)

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CASE59478: Horary consultation concerning Jane Hopkins (PERSON51848)

Question asked by the patient on 26 November 1624 at 14:30

RN Iane Hopkins of Silson \a mayden/ 30 y novēb: 26 h. 2. 30 p m 1624 |head & backe 6 days| /{kep}t her bed 7 days Dangerous sick\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 117r (upper left part of page)

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CASE78366: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Phoebe Hopkins (PERSON51853)

Question asked by the patient on 1 October 1633 at 16:20

RN Mres Phebe Hopkins of Barton hard by Camb\r/idg 24 y octob. 1. h. 4. 20 p m 1633 /fat at 14. & had big breasts now leane head & back shadow & black spots head neaver well in the forete\

[Astrological Chart]

Mres Phebe Hopkins 24 y of Barton 24 y octob 1 h. 4 20 p m 1633.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 211, pp. 483–484 (p. 483 bottom right, and p. 484 upper left)

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CASE10554: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Sanders [Young Mrs Leaf] (PERSON13656)

Question asked by the patient on 13 May 1600 at 15:30

RN Mres leafe of lathbury maij 13. die h. 2|3|. 30. 20. {sic} p m. 1600 /head back whites/\

Mres leafe may 13 die h 3. 30 p m

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 202, f. 67r, f. 66v (f. 67r bottom left, and f. 66v bottom right)

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CASE12271: Horary consultation concerning Goody Joan Malins (PERSON13903)

Question asked by the patient on 21 April 1599 at 18:00

RN Ione Malins cōplayneth of her hed back & every where. 2i Apr. die . h. 6. p m 1599

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 132v (upper right part of page)

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CASE17357: Horary consultation concerning Richard Wagstaffe (PERSON16714)

Question asked by the patient on 25 June 1602 at 15:30

RN Rich. Wagstave. 30 y Iune 25. hor. 3. 30. p m. 1602. /head & backe.\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 113r (upper left part of page)

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CASE20955: Horary consultation concerning Mary Nashe (PERSON14337)

Question asked by the patient on 2 April 1604 at 14:15

RN A Mary naash of Buckinghā 6 70 y mar Apr 2 hor. 2. 15 p m 1604. hed backe sydes halfe a yere/

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 415, f. 64v (upper right part of page)

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CASE21077: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Goodfellowe (PERSON12223)

Question asked by the patient on 17 April 1604 at 12:30

RN Elisabeth Goodfellowe 44 y Apr. 17. . hor 12 30 p m 1604 hed backe stomacke.

[Partial Astrological Chart]

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 415, f. 81v (upper right part of page)

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CASE27419: Horary consultation concerning Joan Hughes (PERSON13024)

Question asked by the patient on 29 May 1606 at 14:00

RN Ione Hues of litle brickhill hed & back 41 y may 29 h. 2. p m 1606. /hed & back extreeme sicke.\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 215, f. 152v (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE17194: Horary consultation concerning Elizabeth Ellis (PERSON11546)

Question asked by the patient on 11 June 1602 at 13:00

RN Elisabeth Ellys of hanslop 27 y. her youngest child x weekes old. Iune xj hor. 12. 1. p m 1602

head ill. /backe ill.\

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 87v (upper right part of page)

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CASE71434: Horary consultation concerning John Headsman (PERSON51291)

Question asked by the patient on 25 February 1631 at 13:10

Iohn Headsman of Earles Barton 21. y. febr. 25. . h. 1. 10. p m 1631 |married|

complayneth of his back, head & stomack, subiect to melancholy for a weeke

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 232, p. 136 (bottom right part of page)

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CASE71530: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Priscilla Barnes (PERSON43588)

Question asked by the patient on 12 March 1631 at 13:00

RN Mres prscilla Barnes. 25. y mayed {sic} a weeke after Miklemas b march 12. h {sic} hor. 1. p m 163i.

a good vryne but thin

hed & back a bout a fortnight a bad stomack & weake troubled wth many heates & red pimples

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 232, p. 163 (upper left part of page)

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CASE74309: Horary consultation concerning Richard Dobs (PERSON47917)

Question asked by the patient on 13 April 1632 at 13:00

RN Rich Dobs of Bozeat 44. y the Surg brother. a batch Ap 13 h 1. p m 1632 |head & back & stomack|

a fortnight hath had the malig feaver every about 3 \7/ in the after noone1

[Partial Astrological Chart]

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘malig fevers’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 416, p. 76 (upper left part of page)

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CASE13053: Horary consultation concerning Young Mrs Elizabeth Gascoyne [Blundell] (PERSON9822)

Question asked by the patient on 9 February 1600 at 16:00

RN young Mres Blundell came to me for her griping in her wōbe head ach. back. feb. 9 die hor 4 p m. 1600

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 266r (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?f32-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AHead%20and%20neck%3A%3AHead;f33-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3ATorso%3A%3ABack;f34-time-of-day=PM, accessed 25 March 2025.