skip to primary navigationskip to content

Search results

Display  

Showing 1-20 of 23 records with:

  • Medical::Parts of the body::Head and neck in question-asked 
  • Medical::Treatment::Requesting treatment in question-asked 
  • Yes in treatment 
 Sorted by:  

Refine your results

Document type

Practitioner details

Practice
Number of practitioners
Practitioner is querent
Practitioner is patient

Astrologer details

Practitioner is astrologer
Number of astrologers

Patient details

Patient is
Patient’s age
Number of patients

How & where did it take place

Querent is asking about
Consultation took place with patient's knowledge
Patient's consent to the consultation is
How did it take place

When did it take place

Date
Time of day

Consultation details

Case contains judgment
Case includes treatment information
  • Yes
Case contains recipe

Person asking the question

Querent is
Querent’s age
Querent is identified
Number of querents

Editorial information

Case deleted
Case text damaged
Language
Extent of transcription
manuscript page thumbnail

CASE30459: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Mary Dayrell (PERSON19461)

Question asked by Dayrell (PERSON22852) on 14 January 1607 at 11:30

RN Mres Mary Dorle of lillingstone Dorle 18 y Ian. 14. h. 12 11. 30 ant m. 1607 in prsenc her selfe.

[Astrological Chart]

her fathr sent her to have an Issue made in her necke.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 193, f. 52r (upper left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE46218: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Anne Blundell (PERSON19061)

Question asked by Sir George Blundell [Captain Blundell] (PERSON9813) on 20 March 1618 between 17:00 and 18:30

RN Sr Georg craveth a vomyt for his daughters head. \Mres An Blundell/ 11 y.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 23v (bottom left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE61520: Horary consultation concerning Mr Clement Forman (PERSON23240)

Question asked by the patient on 20 January 1626 at 15:39

RN Clement Formā came to me for pils troubled wth his teeth Ian. 20 h. 3. 39 p m 1626

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 77v (middle left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE58110: Horary consultation concerning Old Mrs Mary Burgoyne (PERSON45287)

Question asked by the patient on 9 April 1624 at 12:30

RN Mres Burgayne \of/ Sutton 56|4| Ap. 9 h. 12. 30 p m 1624

head neck

would take a litle physick

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 138r (upper left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE52197: Horary consultation concerning Sir Francis Ventris (PERSON36354) and William Page (PERSON55908)

Question asked by Sir Francis Ventris (PERSON36354) on 26 March 1621 at 14:20

RN Sr Francis Ventrys wrote a most kind letter boath concerning his owne love & desyres to take physick of me for his head & other infirmityes as also for his neighb page of Sheaford craveth pils

march 26 h. 2. 20 p m 162i

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 233, f. 94Av (upper right part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE48787: Horary consultation concerning Mr William Bouth (PERSON28280) and Mrs Vere Bouth (PERSON28281)

Question asked by Mr William Bouth (PERSON28280) on 21 May 1619 at 16:00

RN Mr Bouth May 21 h. 4 p m 16i9 sent for strenghtning pils for his head.

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 235, f. 10v (upper left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE43549: Horary consultation concerning Mr John Langham (PERSON32532)

Question asked by the patient on 21 June 1616 at 17:15

RN Iohn langhā of london I{illeg}|un|e 21. h. 5. 15 p m 16i6

his hed full of grosse humours vertigo./

desyrous to have phisick for his hed

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 408, f. 116Ar (bottom left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE53727: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Hodgkins (PERSON51679)

Question asked by the patient on 19 March 1622 at 11:20

RN Mres \Elis./ Hodski{illeg}|n|{illeg} of Amptill mayed {sic} to mr Rich Hodgkins {illeg}|of| Amptill the kings steward 50 y march 19 h. 11 20 ant m. 1622.

for an ægylopis in the corner of ye eye hath taken a dyet drink & vsed salues & waters & mastick & neaver the better.

would have it divrted another way. or by ye nose as it was wont: a cold

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 223, f. 27r (upper right part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE67154: Horary consultation concerning Lady Dorothy Jennings [Mrs Jennings] (PERSON52513)

Question asked by the patient on 10 October 1628 at 15:00

RN I receaved a lettr hora 3 octob. 10 h 3 p m frō the lady Iennings 1628

a rising & fuming vp to her head making her to blush & suddenly gone.

desyr of a vomyt & of a dyet drink

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 284r (middle right part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE12367: Horary consultation concerning Mr William Hull (PERSON13048)

Question asked by the patient on 2 May 1599 at 17:00

RN Will: Hulb|l|e of Newporte 18 on the sunday before lāmas. came him selfe to be purged for his hed & watering eyes & hevines of his hed. & eyes. maij 2. die h. 5. p. m. 1599 ever sinc Easter.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 148r (upper right part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE33315: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Magdalen Knight (PERSON13492)

Question asked by the patient on 13 April 1608 between 09:00 and 09:50

RN mes knight his wife. gargles. |for eyes flushing heates|

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 229, f. 102r (bottom left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE55490: Horary consultation concerning Mr Richard Powell (PERSON57007)

Question asked by the patient on 11 January 1623 at 08:20

RN Mr Powell of London sent to Mr Cooke to have some thing to thicken his seed troubled wth the gonorrea lyeth on his bed back els cānot sleepe is to may {sic} shortly wanteth virility & erection sweateth at night. Ian. 11 h. 8. 20 ant m 16231

[Astrological Chart]

Notes:

1 ‘gonorh & itch’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 222, f. 154v (upper left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE75736: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Bridget King (PERSON52985)

Question asked by the patient between 20 October 1632 at 17:45 and 22 October 1632 at 10:30

RN Mres Bridget would intreat you to send her somthing for her black spots in her face but no physick

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 214, p. 85 (upper right part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE15201: Horary consultation concerning Goody Markham (PERSON13956)

Question asked by the patient on 22 June 1603 at 18:15

RN At the same tyme Goody Markum of our towne sente to mee for physick for her hed & lyms

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 93r (bottom left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE64589: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Elizabeth Marsh (PERSON14007) and Margaret Abbot [Marsh] (PERSON54311)

Question asked by Mrs Elizabeth Marsh (PERSON14007) on 14 September 1627 at 17:30

RN My Cosen Marsh the older sent me a kind letter to signify yt after my clyster & blood letting she was well for 4 days & then payned as before in her hed & arme so greevously betwixt 4 & 5 p m cōnoly {sic} Sept 14. h. 5. 30 p m 1627 she sent to Cambridg to Mr Crane he gave her a pils|l| & also a clyster

had the horse leaches & they were {illeg} naught.

took my pils & Dyet drink & did well for the tyme

her Daughter fond mtch {sic} good by her playster Desyreth a nother & a recept of it

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 214r (upper left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE59704: Horary consultation concerning Mr Benjamin Hall (PERSON50643)

Question asked by the patient on 26 January 1625 at 11:15

RN Mr Hales the Earlle of Kents baylye Ian 26 h. 11 15 ant m 1625. /had a vomyt & a purge of me\ head litle mended 49. y. yet pils he took of Mr Windg every night paynd in his head about seaven

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 402, f. 151v (upper left part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE11615: Horary consultation concerning Mary Nichols (PERSON14470)

Question asked by the patient on 10 August 1598 at 10:06

RN Mary Nichols of Newport of 26 y. die {sic} Aug. 10. h. 10. 6. m. ant m enquireth what is good to take away the an arising in the l out of the chest ready to stop her throote.

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 228, f. 13r (bottom left, and bottom right parts of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE13515: Horary consultation concerning Goody Elizabeth Miller (PERSON14184)

Question asked by the patient on 17 May 1598 at 13:00

RN Goody Miller quærit quid sit vt salutare morbo suo. remediu quæritat. cor caput sibi dolent. the 17 of may. die h. 1a

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 182, f. 189v (upper part of page)

manuscript page thumbnail

CASE62316: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Frances Blowfild [Old Mrs Blowfild] (PERSON28164)

Question asked by the patient on 10 May 1626 at 16:00

RN Mres francis Blowfild {illeg} of flitwick 50|4|. y. may 10 hor 4. p m 1626.

she is clogged at her stomack ready to stop her wynd

her flux downward somwhat stayd yet voydeth mutch thick blood at her nose in clotters

she Desyreth some of her old syrop yt she had in may Last

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 224, f. 200v (bottom 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?f34-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AHead%20and%20neck;f37-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ATreatment%3A%3ARequesting%20treatment;f38-treatment=Yes, accessed 24 February 2025.