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CASE57432: Decumbiture for Joan Nightingale (PERSON55540)

Question asked by the patient on 26 November 1623 at 09:20

RN novēb. 16 h 7. 30 p m 1623 was taken sitting by the fire & cōpl of a pricking & shooting of her head first cōplayned

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 413, f. 30r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE65953: Decumbiture for Frederick King (PERSON52937)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON40650) on 29 April 1628 at 10:45

RN Ap 28 h. 10 ant m 1628 cōpl of a rūning vp & downe his legs arms eares & neck like a like a {sic} mouse & bite him by the prick the child in ye fit quake & stampe taken so yeste\r/day

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 405, f. 6r (bottom right part of page)

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CASE30155: Decumbiture for Anne (PERSON21715)

Question asked by the patient between 16 December 1605 at 17:30 and 17 December 1605 at 08:15

RN my servant An An {sic} fell into her old payne of the tooth ache Decēb 16 h 1605.

Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 216, f. 255r (upper right part of page)

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CASE32763: Decumbiture for Goody Magdalen Denton (PERSON22903)

Question asked by the patient on 10 February 1608 at 10:00

RN Goody Denton of Winge tak{en} first wth an extreme hed ach feb 2. h. 8. 30 ant m 1608 |3{illeg}|6| last mikle\m/as|1

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Notes:

1 ‘extreme hed ach hath had misch.’ in chart

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 229, f. 25v (upper right part of page)

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CASE64885: Decumbiture for Henry [Harry] Wallis (PERSON16774)

Question asked by the patient on 5 November 1627 at 10:00

RN vseth to bleed mutch at nose & yest night he bleede a quart & so /also before yt he swonded wth it waterish blood.\ h. 12. 20 p m 1627 /novēb. 4. h. 12. 20 p {sic} 1627\ |head ach.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 227, f. 262r (upper left part of page)

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CASE17621: Decumbiture for John Cox (PERSON11012)

Question asked by the patient on 31 July 1602 at 11:53

RN afterwards his senses were taken awaye in ye fi{l}d Iuly 29 {sic} \27./ hor. 5. 3. 6. p m 1602 his head now aketh a litle. shoulders

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 221, f. 157v (bottom right, and bottom left parts of page)

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CASE75830: Decumbiture for John Flacke (PERSON49065)

Question asked by the patient on 2 November 1632 at 08:00

RN Iohn Flack of Winbish taken & tormented in his right thigh rūning vp to his tongue & head b. {sic} Sept 22 h 12. 30 p m 1632. 60 y

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 214, p. 117 (upper left part of page)

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CASE11811: Decumbiture for Margaret Fowler (PERSON11895)

Question asked by the patient on 18 November 1598 at 11:20

RN Margaret fowler of Newport of 30 yeres old. sick a longe time about his|er| hart & every ioynt & a great payne in her hed of long time. {t}|c|omplayned on thursdaye last

Margaret fowler of Newport vnmaried of 40 30 yeres old sick a long time in hed hed {sic} & hart & hath a great reume come over her eyes for this longe time complayneth sinc thursday last about 12 at midnight. die novemb 16. die . h. 12. at midnight 1598. they feare lest shee be bewitched of H.

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Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 228, f. 54r-v (f. 54r bottom right, and f. 54v upper left)

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CASE46642: Decumbiture for Robert Rider (PERSON34748)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON38394) on 16 May 1618 at 08:00

RN may 8 at fryday it tooke him about 12 in the night it first tooke him in his legs wth a shooting & sinc it rūneth vp into his hed making him to talke idlely a light head |Is grown starke mad.|

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 201, f. 101v (upper left part of page)

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CASE65442: Decumbiture for Richard Shephard (PERSON58578)

Question asked by the patient on 29 February 1628 at 10:30

RN Suddenly taken in his \right/ arme the vse taken away payned in the throate swelled wth a cough & taken wth strong & strang fits & is very hot in his fits wch continue above halfe a day feb. 17 h. 12. p m. 1628

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 410, f. 115v (upper right part of page)

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CASE15062: Decumbiture for Thomas Franklin (PERSON11915)

Question asked by Anonymous (PERSON18031) on 3 June 1603 at 15:30

GJ This morning betweene 7 & 8 there came sodenly in the bed a great payne in the right legge that the Childe Cryed wthall

Thomas Franklyn of marston / Now it hold him extreemely in head and the braynes do so beat in the head that it styrres the Clothes as it lyes in the bed, sore every where Cannot endure to be styrred. /

ho Insultus morbi 1603 Iunij 3. ho. 7. 30 a m

[Astrological Chart]

Transcribed excerpt from MS Ashmole 207, f. 80r (bottom left, and upper right parts 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?f35-question-asked=Medical%3A%3AParts%20of%20the%20body%3A%3AHead%20and%20neck;f36-document-type=Case%3A%3AEntry%3A%3ADecumbiture;f37-question-asked=Medical%3A%3ASymptoms%20%28specified%29%3A%3APain%20and%20pricking, accessed 21 March 2025.