Casebooks

RN Edward Brandon of Droughton 22 y a batch novēb 27. ☾ h. 2. 30 p m 1620 melancholy mightely troubled in mynd & cānot sleepe & costive head paynd & greatly payned in his stomack.

RN Mres Iohan Præscot of Holborne 54 y march 9 ♂ h. 9 ant m. 1624. still mutch plexed in mynd & still payned in her head /℞ to write to her by the next Caryer./\

RN {I}ames Hunt of Chauson in the parish of Roxon 29 y march 15. ♂ h. 9. 30 ant m 163i. /melanch. laborat mente magis quā Corpore vertigine Capitis of long cōtinuance\

RN Mres Elisabeth. Banyster the daughter of S^r Rob. Banyster 2|3|0\1./ y march. 20 ☿ h. 12. 39. p m 1622 |a very leane melanch. gentlewomā| |costive cōmonly. head ach.| |head weake spl: ready to vnclose & cānot sleepe worst at night w^th raging payne w^th a shooting & dra{w} in her eyes/|

RN Rob. Maryot of Woulson 23 y sept 16: h {sic}. hor 11. ant m. 16i5 mutch troubled in his senses. very fearfull hed aketh eyes sparkle. a sangyne cōplexion¹

RN Mres Elis: Reare of Easton 20 y novēb 2. ☿ h. 4|5| 3 p m 1608

The lady zancher for a sad pensive harte. & melanch. & purples in her bodye./

The lady Staffard for heare fallen & piling eyes red hands & melancholy

The lady Dormer farmer a soden feare after her sleepe a trembling.

RN Th. Travell of Hanslop 14. next palme sonday |but borne a weeke before/ at night| was suddenly taken about a fortnight sinc yesterday \this morning/ felt a shaking in his bed & will turne his eys. & about 7 y. sinc {illeg} {sic} had lost his speach & senses & could not stand nor goe. ever wagling & rolling vp & down his eyes & mouth but now hath his sences fect. & now begȳning to be as heretofore march 18 ☾ h. 3. 15 p m. 1622

RN Elis: Marcholl of Newp 59 y h {sic} hor 7. 30 ant m 1624. 60 next 9. days after alhallowtyde ☿ after martymas Day. came her selfe march 6 h {sic} hor 7. 30 ant m. 1624 /p^rsent a great Wen on her cheeke 26 y it was at first no bigger then a pease\

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, y^e 14^th: of march 1630./

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

RN Iane Wooden of Turvey 52 y. Ap. 10 ☿ h. 8. 30 ant m. 1622 \eys red & sore/ |a swying gydynes in her head.| /head benūmed\

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.

RN mres Smith wentioned {sic} her hed ach & her husb. Ian. 3 21 ☿ h. 3 \2 40./ p m 1607 /shee & her husb. came to make mery w^th me & brought the meate.\

RN \M^r Anth. Anth./ D Anth Some Quærit^r quæ sit causa morbi et vnde sit octob. 21 ♃ h. 8. ant m 1630 /feareth the stone Leane cholerick fretfull throate cough & stone apt to take greefe\

RN An Clarke of Adstock 67 y decēb. 5 ☉ h. 3 p m. 1624 a wedd next at night 5 weekes Dreamed in the night & was at her waking in a trance her {illeg}|s|ight & sences fayling her & is redy to sink away sodenly by fits in her sight & sences & swȳing of her brayne offreth to cast & to goe to stoole but cānot

RN {I}ohn Evans of the Mynrys in London Iue {sic} 19 ♃ h. 6 p m. 1628

writeth for a gent mā

first vnfoldeth his owne greefe how he is wrōged & cosened of all y^t he hath & therby he his wife & childrē broght to great want & misery craveth my Counsell & instruction

Also writeth in the behalfe of a gentlemā y^t having taken an extreme cold & p^rsently an exceeding greefe for the Death of his wife & {th}erby cast Downe into sicknes & mutch melancholy of a sanguyne cōplexion his sicknes & melancholy is mutch abated & now his voice is almost Lost y^t he s cānot {sic} \on cānot/ spea heare on \him/ that speaketh {sic} \to speake/ a yard of

cōplayneth of something about the pit of his throate his voice is only low & weake but not troubled w^th any fault in noncing but cleere inough every where no physick but cōplayneth of the coldnes of his stomack & head & sone {sic} stoppage about the begying of his nose cold flegme & cold head & defect in hearing hath 2 great manyscripts of physick y^t he is Desyrous I should vse craveth vnder god my consayle for the frind his gentleman

RN Ione freeman of Newp v 17 y. very sicke. sore at the hart & hath a thing arising in her throat ready to stop her winde & was almost dead last night & cryeth & taketh & sayth shee shall dye may the 15. die ♂ h. 11. 12. m. ant m. 1599. & of her thighes. every where a pricking of her {hart}

RN Decēb 22. ☉ h. 2. 40|5| p m 1622 swounded & fomed & his mouth Drawen backward. & at night had another fit & this swounded 4 tymes yesterd daye

RN Francis Cooke of Northāpton feb 23 a wench. ♀ h. 10. 15 p m 1627. now 4 y. old. almost a moh|n|th {sic} \month/ sick

now hath an Ague lips very sore & broken out. dull heavy no ioy of any thing eateth litle, sleepeth not quietly. vryne cold red thick temp. & hath bene laxative vryne warned mutch better in colour./ feb 8 ☾ {sic} h 2 p m. 163i.

RN An \Campion/ Warren decēb 26 ♀ h. 8. ant m 1623 \casteth all./ /a gydynes of y^e brayne\ /of this towne\

RN M^r Stowe \the Surgion/ for an Inv{ete}rate headach & mela{nch} pyneth & a great rhe{ume} May 25. ♀ h. 2. p m 162i