Casebooks

RN M^r Will: Co{l|e|}lles Colles of Parke berrye of 58 troubled sick this i6 yeres & hath had the Counsell of the most exte phisitions troubled w^th a windy cause as he sayth cōming from his backe by a great heate & obstruction from my liver. also w^th a bad stomacke elevating winde into my hed. w^ch causeth gydines or streming in my head w^ch cometh as he thinketh by the ascending vp of bad & melancholy humours & w^th a shaking in my left hand mightely as it were the palsye but always very hotte. nowe of late w^th the brevity of wind in my stomacke & chest & lately w^th a mūmnes {sic} & tinckling in my hands. lips & sydes & face. this 15 of may. die ♂ h. 4. 45. p m. 1599.

RN Mres Dorothy Davers 13. Iuly 5. ♂ hor 3. 40. p m. 1603. hyps & hed canot stand faynt feeble stomacke.

RN Mres Blundell enquireth what is good for her Disease shee is pulled as it were in peeces hart belly sides & swollen in her stomach y^t & worse after she hath eaten or Drunken weake & feble in her body & knees. Aug. 28. die ☾ h. 5. 28 mi p. m shee shaketh & trembleth body {neck} & {yoin}tꝭ

RN Mres Tod of Cūberton. 24 y. Ma\r/ch 12 ♀ h. 6 {sic} \5. 5{0}/ p m 1630 |stomack weake lame frō her huckle{bone}/bone\ {sic} to h{er} heele & arme of the right sy{de}|

Mres Tod of Cūberton by Cābridg 3 ryiles {sic} sent March 12 ♀ h. 5. 50 p {sic} 1630

a bad stomack

witchery suspected by Goody Wode to whō she gave a peticoate. her mother & neighbous {sic} suspect it vehemently

sent me a wrought Cap

RN Bridget Bently 3 y the Monday after Alhouday. then 3 y old ankles weak & goeth not well may 15 ☿ h. 1. 25 p m 1633

RN Em Rodwell of Kempson 15 y. Ap 11 die ♀ h. 8. 50. ant m. 1600

pricked & vexed all over her bodye in her body left syde & thigh.

cannot turne her in her bede

Mary Chamberlin of Kempson 17. or 18 y. Apr 11 die ♀ h. 8. 50 ant m. troubled w^th a swounding twce {sic} a weeke. head. chest.

seemeth to be in love

RN Mres Hurlestone of Wing S^r Robarts Dor. Daught^r {illeg} {sic} 29. ant m 1606 |tremar cordis, matricis ascēsio vertig. melanch|

RN M^r Clement Edmunds 4. y. Ap: 15. ☾ h 4. p m. 1633 \lame of his lyms cā/ /also the father for a weake stomack\

RN Mres Elisabeth Pots 40. of Charlegrave Martij 26. ♀ hor 1. 45. 50. p {sic}¹

RN M^r William Chester was borne vppon Easter monday about 4 of the clock p m. this Child is f {sic} very small faynt feble of a longe visage hath not the vse of his lims but specially of his legs to goe natus āno dni 1596. 12 Apr. die ☾ h. 4 p m. 1596.

RN Rob favell very weak g{athes} no strenght. & goeth crosse legs other wise not & his legs & body pyne Aug 1|2|0 ♀ h. 11 45 ant m 1624

3 y ch{rim}{illeg}|{s}| {sic} Christmas the sonday senet before Christmas h. 12. 30 in y^e morning very early

RN on Maryot a wench 15 y novēb 1. ♀. h. 1. p m. 1611 cānot goe but kepeth her bed it lyeth in her lyms weake & feeble

RN fell sick on satt last betwixt 11 & 12. & is sorely payned & cānot hath no vse of his lims & cānot styr him selfe & swoundeth often

RN Iohn Field his sonne of Luton 14. y payned frō the head to the sole of the feete 2 days before newyers day. taken in a cold morning full of great wheales all over. his body as big as great beanes exceding poer & weake knoweth no body, nor can styr any te of his body very thirsty goeth to stoole well Ian 27 ♃ h. 3 p m 1620

RN The lady Butler touching her child y^t is well amended of his fits ye{d}|t| weake & not able to goe feets & legs swell still & cānot sleepe a weeke togeath^r till after a eleaven in y^e morning |marh {sic} 13 h {sic} h 12 30 p m 1624| sent for her neighb vrsula Clarke 50 y March 13 h {sic} hor. 12. 30 p m 1624

RN M^r Robert Ansloe 66 y feb 26 ☾ h. 4 30 p. m 1627 on thursday last he swonded ever sinc his right syde is dead & speaketh very badly¹

RN Henry Cuddington 12 y Iuly paralitycall |vtrū wheath^r {sic}| It was on y^e left syde & now in y^e right syde weake & cā scace {sic} speake. An foster Rookes wife of Calv^rton a humour rūning pulling frō the feete vp to her head a great longe tyme./. An {sic}

RN Agnys Kent of Moulsoe almost 5 quarters borne on Palme sonday last was twelfmonth about some {sic} rising sent to me May 14. ☿. h. 5. p m. 1628.

It is pyned & cōsumed belly hard & voydeth wormes living 6. wasteth in the body. was nurced by goody Keburne. goody Keburne came into another nurces house & would needes suckle it, wheath^r the nurce would or no & sinc mutch amys & it swounded twice to day belly very hard flesh quite wasted was not well tended by goody Keburne face swelled buttocke black & blewe. cānot stand vppon the lyms the child p^rsent w^th goody Alton of Moulsoe it did batle well vnder this nurce vntill goody Keburne her former nurce would suckle it force tooke some surfet.

RN Mary Smyth of Stawton 20 myles 30 y Ap 27. ♂ h. 10. 15 ant m 1619 her head shaketh a fortnight or 3 \shaking/ palsy. mother backe thighꝭ as if they should be torne but her head exceding cold.

head cold

vryne very good. a very good stomacke yet very faynt. mutch troubled w^th wynd 2 y. sinc had a boy. hath thought her selfe twice to be w^th child w^thin this twelfemonthe. nescit an sit gravida

RN An Bourton of Olny 26 yeres old. sick the ever sinc Lent tooke her in her hed hart & backe maried this 7 yeres had but on Child but y^t god hath taken to his mercy. {s} {sic} it holdeth her nowe as an ague shaking her every day. & hat sweateth & is very hot after the shaking & hath as it were a thing lūbring in her chest very corpulent faynt & very feeble. hath a very painfull cough ready to Drawe vp hart & hall w^th it & fetcheth blood very short winded. fetcheth vp fleume & water as cleare as a bell. Ap. 25 die ☿. h. 8. 30. mi ant m. 1599. hath a very sore ague every day y^t maketh her sweate exceedingly. hath not had this moneth her Courses sinc shee voyded a litle porreng^r of clompered bloode/